Our 2022/2023 school year will be filled with new and exciting learning opportunities!
Cassie Carlson, Rick Sparks and Logan Bowling from Tonn and Blank Construction started us off with an awesome carpentry and construction project to build wall and floor panels. The lesson included teaching the kids to make accurate measurements, introduced them to using a Miter Saw to cut the wood and hammer & nails to construct the walls. The kids embraced the challenge and worked together to complete their projects. Thank you Tonn and Blank Construction for your preparation and time on this project. We also wish to thank our volunteer helpers from Amazon and the FWCS Career Academy students, your help makes all this possible.
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LaVar Brewer along with Romeró Roméro from the Plumbers and Steamfitters 166, created an exciting and informative Project Blueprint for our members at their training facility. They provided a detailed tour which included: a welding room; a model 2-story home exposing the frame structure showing the set-up for water intake and drainage; a 5ft deep sand-pit to demonstrate how pipe is laid below the frost line to prevent freezing, and the HVAC training lab. The club members, utilizing skills learned in prior training lessons with LaVar, were able to use a blow torch to solder copper pipes together and reviewed the processes used to clean and cut various pipes. Thank you LaVar and Romeró for this excellent training session filled with so much information. We also wish to thank Kent Prosser and Les Zimmerman who helped create a positive and energetic environment for our members.
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Fort Wayne Community Schools recently held a planning session with Ford Next Generation Learning. The focus of the collaboration is to create a new learning path to prepare students for careers, life-long learning and leadership.
NEICA’s Mike Avila, Tom Case, Kent Prosser and Darryl Esterline attended the session. NEICA is excited to see where our program can work in partnership with this new venture.
Visit the Ford Next Generation Learning website to learn more. https://fordngl.com/
Ford NGL: Helping communities prepare future scientists, inventors, public servants and entrepreneurs.
Kent Prosser leads team building session to victory!
Steve East with Laborers Local 213 talked with students about career and apprenticeship opportunities at the April 20, 2022 Career Fair held at South Side High School in Fort Wayne.
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