As a way to introduce students to four of the five divisions of study available to them at Everett Community College’s Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Education Center (AMTEC), our career and retention coach partner Lisa Fritch brought a team of instructors together to take students through a step by step process designing, cutting, refining, welding, and placing composite stickers on a steel piggy bank that they were then able to take home with them. Each day, students were given basic instruction in one of the four divisions (Design Technology, Precision Machining, Composites, Welding and Fabrication) and then assigned a task in the piggy bank project that provided them with a directly applicable hands-on learning experience.
Students were excited to learn from the instructors they would have next year in college and as well as the machines they would be training on for their certificates. This will be a great advantage to their future success at EvCC because they have already been exposed to the instructional styles, learning environment, tools and machines, and workplace culture at AMTEC.
Students were excited to learn from the instructors they would have next year in college and as well as the machines they would be training on for their certificates. This will be a great advantage to their future success at EvCC because they have already been exposed to the instructional styles, learning environment, tools and machines, and workplace culture at AMTEC.