CRTC, Concord Regional Technology Center is a program in which juniors and seniors at Hopkinton High School can participate. Juniors must sign up During Sophomore year. And seniors must have gone as a junior.
There are several different classes students may attend at Concord including automotive, construction and culinary. Hopkinton juniors leave the high school for Concord at ten thirty am via school bus. Class starts at the Tech at eleven o’ five and ends at twelve thirty five. The Tech Center is located on the left side of Concord High School.
“The automotive program doesn’t begin hands on until Sp/2 is completed. Sp/2 is an online safety course all students must finish and pass before they can begin in the shop. The course may take a full two weeks or more to finish.” As told by Kassandra Horning. Being a senior in the program Horning knows the program quite well.
Horning states that due to the amount of students attending the program they had to dedicate another classroom to the automotive program. There are two different teachers instructing the class Mr. Bill and Mr. Wheeler. Although there are two classes there is still only one shop.
The teachers made an arrangement where Monday and Tuesday Mr. Bills class would be in the shop and Thursday and Friday Mr. Wheeler would be in the shop. Wednesday they would alternate every other week.
Students are required to personally obtain an engine before the class begins and bring it in. Throughout the course students use the tools provided to completely disassemble the engine and rebuild it.
Due to the fact that the shop is an open garage they take business from the public and the seniors do the work. Towards the second half of the year Mr. Bill will choose some of his “better” students and allow them to work on the cars doing easy tasks such as tire rotation and oil changes.
The Construction program teaches kids how to use a variety of tools from a hammer to a table saw. They will learn to split an inch into sixteen segments, and throughout the year the will build walls and roofs. Eventually they will build complete sheds ready fore sale
The culinary course teaches students the rules of the kitchen. They will uses stoves and ovens to produce the most scrumptious of foods. They bake cookies and cakes all the way up to entrées and three course meals
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