Every good project starts with a plan!!!!

The students are quickly learning that it's easy to have big ideas, but harder to make the plans. The key part of that sentence is that the students are learning! Here are some pictures of the design and manufacturing class working on some design components of van. They are making conceptual drawing of the van. what they think the van should look like when it's done. They are also planning things such as; what the interior should look like, the ergonomics of the new dash, and what the new interior panels should look like. This class has a lot to do with dreaming, so it's tuff for me as a teacher to look around the room and see the dreamy looks on the kids faces and not say anything. We spend time looking on the internet at cars, engines and tools; just what every boy wants to do (dream about cars). It's not all fun and games, the students are learning to run a complicated 3D drafting program, they have learned a great deal about hand drafting, and learned just how hard it is to have an original idea.

Local Business Shows It's Support for Our Project

Our local energy company, Naknek Electric Association (NEA) has taken an interest in our project. NEA has been known for the efforts they have made in our region to provide cleaner, cheaper, and sustainable energy. They have upgraded our local powerplant to one of the most efficeient in the state, and they didn't stop there. Somewhere thousands of feet below us there is a resource of energy cleaner and more reliable, and they have their sites set on it. Geothermal energy will be our regions next step toward cleaner energy. Even smaller, local companies can do their part to change the way the world makes and uses energy. Thank you to NEA for their contribution, they are providing support for the future and our education.