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TEACHING ™ In this Issue West Bend east and West High Schools
Manufacturing Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 25
TODAY WI
Here they Come! potosi Students are learning
SteM future is Bright at fontana elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 4
Why Choose energy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6 “real-World” Skill Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 28
PuBLIShER/EDITOR: Renee Feight energy Career Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 Warhawk Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 29
EDITOR: Andria Reinke Dream Career essay Contest 2022–2023 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 8 racine Case High School Helps fill Skills gap
PAGE COMPOSITION: Andrew Clausen Dream Career essay Contest Winners 2021–22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 with SMe priMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 30
WEBMASTER: Scott Bayerl filling out the fafSa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9 fitting the growing Manufacturing needs of the
SPECIAL ASSISTANT: Allie Zacharias future in fall river . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 31
ACCOuNT ExECuTIvE: Shaw Liljeqvist Youth apprenticeship offerings — 14 new Brown Deer — a rich History of teaching in the trades . . . . . . . . . . page 31
occupational pathways for Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 10 inspiring, training, and guiding Youth to Be extraordinary . . . . . . . . page 32
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peshtigo technology education exploratory Classes prepare Students for Careers

orders and checks, and ing skills and are exposed to tools. Last fall, the and the table saw. I want to continue woodwork-
learn to maintain a tight students entered a competition in which they ing and learn to build things like tables, chairs,
budget. The goal is to built an adirondack chair and bench. “Industry and cabinets.”
complete a finished usable and the trades fields are huge, so we introduce as “This geometric wood epoxy project
prototype. many exploratory concepts as possible for eighth requires math, science, and art skills.” Rocque
Eighth grade stu- graders,” explains Rocque. adds, “This helps students gain problem solving
dents also learn about Recently, students completed a wood- and decision making skills which will help them
robotics. They learn about working project she called a “Geometric Wood later in life.”
circuits, basic electrical Epoxy Project”. “After designing their projects, Rocque’s project utilized geometry,
systems, and even how to students had to fit all of their geometric shapes measuring, woodworking, and principles of man-
solder. within a specified area, which was challenging at ufacturing. “Students learned to mass produce
Paquette is not alone times!” shared Rocque. one shape multiple times, as well as the skill of
in the technology educa- Rocque taught students how to scale their plastic forming,” she said, and that the concept of
tion department. Beth designs. They got to choose from various woods conserving materials and patience is taught in the
Peshtigo students Evan Young, Abbey Graf, Landon Haulotte, Kyle Rocque also teaches a which included oak, cherry and black walnut epoxy stage of the project.
Beattie, Bastian Coble, Luke Swiatnicki, and Braydon Denowski technology education with different shades, colors and grains. All of Eighth grade student Abbey Graff said,
pose with their geometric wood epoxy projects
class which focuses on the wood for the projects were donated by a local “The coolest thing I learned was to use epoxy. It
Sam Zuehls, Peshtigo School District different knowledge flooring company. was fun and exciting, and turned out really cool!”
Eighth grade students in Peshtigo take and skills. In Rocque’s class, students learn a Students learned to operate several tools for “We want to emphasize universal skills
two one quarter technology education classes number of work-related skills including coding the project, such as the band saw, which allowed students need across all career sets, such as the
which introduces them to a number of differ- javascript, isometric and orthographic sketching, them to cut wood into geometric shapes. ability to problem solve and work together as a
ent skills. One class is taught by technology architectural drafting, 3D printing, and wood- Student Evan Young said, “The tool I found team,” states Paquete.
teacher Mike Paquette where he creates design working! most interesting was the band saw. The speed of Rocque adds “Seeing the pride students
challenges for students to work on in teams. “Coding skills are important because “most how fast the blade spun and how it cut a perfect have once the product is finished, is super
“The goal is to mimic a business and teach factories are humans maintaining machines.” line in the wood was pretty cool.” rewarding!” Student Nathan Sebero enjoyed
students the problem-solving process they need Learning to create and read isometric, ortho- After sanding the shapes and placing them learning more about coding and liked how his
to go through to bring a product to market,” he graphic, and architectural sketches are really into the design, students then sealed the project wood epoxy project turned out. “I see myself
said. important in industry and the trades. Three together with epoxy. Two weeks after applying working in the trades or manufacturing,” he said.
The class members are faced with a chal- dimensional printing is “huge in the field”, and epoxy of varied colors, students squared off the
lenge product to create such as a coin sorter. is very important in engineering and manufactur- projects using a table saw.
They research design and do an efficiency study. ing,” said Rocque. Student Karter Carpenter said, “The tools I www.peshtigo.k12.wi.us
Students then purchase materials, write purchase Students also learn some basic woodwork- was most interested to learn were the band saw