Safety Guidelines
Report every injury to your instructor, no matter how minor.
Take off all dangling jewelry before working with machines.
Wear proper footwear shoes that cover your whole foot
Keep hands beside or behind your back when close to machines, NEVER IN FRONT.
Do not leave your hair untied when using machines.
Exploring Technologies
Computer Tech
Learning about different components of a circuit
Light bulb, is a load to the circuit.
Wires carry the flow of electrons.
Capacitor stores energy.
Transistor works as an amplifier.
Resistor, reduces the flow of electrons
Creating your name on a breadboard, for this task, we used wires to spell out our name on a breadboard.
Construction Tech
Creating a Stepstool
Table Saw, to make edges parallel to each other.
Planer, to make two faces parallel to each other
Jointer, to make one edge and one face parallel to each other
Miter Saw, used for rough cutting of stock.
Band Saw used for cutting wood at angles, and also used to cut precisely.
Transportation Tech
Four Main Tasks
Creating Nut and Bolt For this part, we had to cut pieces of steel to make a nut and bolt. We then used a tap to create a hole in the center of the nut, and a die to create lines on the bolt.
Performing a tire change For this task we had to demount a tire from its rim using the tire change machine, then we had to mount it back on.
Serpentine Belt For this task, we had to identify a serpentine belt in a car, we had to draw a diagram showing how the belt is put on the gears. Then we took the serpentine belt off and had to use our diagram to put the serpentine belt back on.
Fixing the wipers All we had to do for this task was take the wipers off the wiper blade, and put them back on. This task didn't take much time.
Communication Tech
Photoshop
CD Cover
Tools Used for CD Cover
All tools used for Cd cover were tools we used for all our other tasks.
Potato head
Tools used for Potatohead
Eraser Tool to erase any unwanted parts of a cut image. This tool was used to erase edges on circles.
Polygon Lasso Tool cuts images by finding the pictures edges
Marquee tool cuts images in square shape
Water Recovery
Tools used for Water Recovery
Spot Healing Brush Tool takes from what's existing in the image and blends the same pixels in another spot. This tool was used to recover the ripped part of the image.
Type Tool to type something on an image. This tool was used to include a title on the image.
Hospitality Tech
Making Pizza Our last task was to make pizza. Some of the ingredients we used were: Active dry yeast, White sugar, Warm water, Salt, Oil, and All purpose flour
Getting Festive with Food Our third task was to bake witch fingers for halloween. Some of the ingredients we used were: Margarine, sugar, green food coloring, vanilla extract, almond extract, all purpose flour, baking powder, sliced almonds, and icing ingredients.
Baking Cupcakes This was our second task, we prepared the base of the cupcake and the icing separately.
Baking Chocolate chip Cookies This was our first task in hospitality. Some of the ingredients we used were: white sugar, Brown sugar, margarine, egg, vanilla extract, all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and chocolate chips.
