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Mathew Knox uses a joystick to guide a robotic arm
Technology of the future
Exeter students meet the challenges of the 21st century
Students from Huron County are harnessing the
technology of the future.
The Huron County Board Of Education's new
Technology 21 Centre is now available to the
grade seven and eight students from across the
county.
Dubbed Tech 21, the centre is located in Cen-
tral Huron Secondary School and was set up by
the Huron County Board of Education last fall to
replace the four centres in Huron County that
were offering family studies, design and technol-
ogy programs.
The centre offers to provide the opportunities
for students to cook, sew, and do woodworking
and plastic projects along with an alternative ex-
posure to activities such as Aerodynamics, Ro-
botics, Small Engines and Desktop Publishing.
The Board implemented the program to cut
costs and to provide students with a taste of the
growing and changing technology they will en-
counter in the future. The practical hands-on ap-
proach to the technology, and the variety of tech-
nological concepts that the student will be
exposed to will help them to make the right choic-
es when deciding what direction to take in high-
school. �...._.. ....:�:r
Were incorporating the best of what used to be
and were also offering a lot more technology, said
elementary school teacher Maggie Crane. "We
can afford to have more [of the new technology]
in one centre than we could in four different
schools and were pleased with how the students
are responding", said Crane.
s
Grade seven and
eight students from
Exeter Public School
got the opportunity to
experience the tech-
nological wave of the
future at the Technol-
ogy 21 Centre In Cen-
tral Huron Secondary
School last Thursday.
The Centre offers stu-
dents alternative tech-
nological concepts
such as Interior De-
sign Remote Control,!
Graphic Art and Tele-
communications in a
module format. The
students spend six hill
days at the Centre
completing a total of
twelve modules..
Story and photos by Chris Skalkos
Top link to right: Dan Berriman, Jacob Bervoets, Ryan Ralph and Tim Mayer made
some raisin bran muffins while learning to bake with a microwave oven.
At loft, Kristin Brooks (left) and Amanda Chambers use Desktop Publishing to design
a flyer.
Above, Jens Darling cuts out a plastic letteron a ski! saw.