Scholarship for WTC.The first month of what was called the ¨Career Center”, now called the Wilson Talent Center (WTC), was a wonderful new way of learning for me. Construction had always been the career I wanted to be in, but not knowing as much as I now know, it was a lot less clear what exactly I wanted to do in the field of construction. The WTC gave me the opportunity to explore what I enjoyed the most in the field of construction and helped me decide what I want to be.
During year one of my construction tech class, we went over plumbing and electrical. When doing the electrical lesson, it became clear to me what my future had to offer when choosing the wonderful career of an electrician. When I came back the second year, it was time to do everything necessary to reach my goal of being an electrician. The electrical classes are not the only important part to reaching this goal: it takes other construction training to help know what is behind the walls or under the floors. Math also plays a good part of my field, which is why doing our Moodle math in class is important (Moodle math teaches applied math and the equations I need in figuring out what angle cut to make, how many supplies I need, etc.). The skill of teamwork is necessary in construction, also, so in our class, our teacher Mr. Johnson often makes us think by using brain teasers. Now this may seem just stupid to do in a construction class, but think about it: when on a job without our job supervisor and you have a simple problem, the worker should be able to of think a new way of getting the job done. So when our teacher gives us the brain teasers, it helps us students think of the solution to the problem. Maturing throughout the time in my two-year program of construction tech helped me with my public speaking by talking to the board of teachers about our class, doing video shoots to talk about our class, and having pictures of myself taken to be posted on the Wilson Talent Center’s website. All of these things have made me be the student I am today, and helped me to decide my future. I’m glad I have had the opportunity to learn at the WTC.
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The real struggles of juggling high school & career center.
In tenth grade our school had one last chance to take a visit to the career center. I took the opportunity of taking the field trip. When I signed up for the visit to CC. We had to choose which classes to visit; for the two classes I chose Auto Tech, and Welding. I was able to squeeze one more class into the visit, Construction Tech. After the field trip I wanted to attend all of the classes I visited. This was a struggle to choose but I ended up choosing a class I didn't even sign up to visit, Construction Tech. The struggles didn’t stop there, in order to attend the CC I would have to stay in highschool one extra year, meaning graduating at the age of 19. If I chose to just stay at the highschool all my classes I needed to graduate could have been finished, but I really wanted this great opportunity to help enlighten my field of learning. The struggles continue being one of the three seniors in a class of 9th graders in Spanish really sucks. Due to the fact I wanted to go to Wilson Talent` Center all the morning classes for Spanish were filled up my Junior year, this meant I would have to take Spanish 1 my Senior year. The first semester of Senior year came to the end, I passed the Spanish class with flying colors, but the fact of being a Senior in a Freshmen class still was lame to think about. Many wouldn’t think about lunch being a challenge to do. But when taking Career Center your lunchtime is about ten minutes at least for the p.m. students, I can’t speak for am students. There are two options to eat lunch, either jam it down your throat or eat on the bumpy bus. This has been my struggles of the last few years of highschool and yes, they may suck at times. But all the struggles and pain make me a stronger person and ready for the real world. |
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