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Second section - November 9, 1994
Huron's Tech 21 on the cutting edge
New technology centre in Clintoh has space for 60 students to work on variousJro'ects
p
13y Catherine O'Brien
'r -:t, staff
('1 INTOt`i - It's hcen just mei-
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serseen weeks since the new tech-
nology program for Huron County's
elementary .churls opened its
doors at Central Huron Seeondti
School in Clinton.
In that time hundreds oI people
have toured the facilities including
officials of neighbouring school
hoards who.are looking to adept a
similar program.
While many people are now
praising the program. it has been a
hard sell.
"VV'c started putting it all together
in August." said Harry Brooks. one
of three regular teachers that t cr-
sees the Tech 21 class.
Brooks said a lot of planning
went into (he designing of the pro-
gram. Officials toured similar fa-
cilities in Essex and Lamhton
counties.
"We put together the hest of both
centres." Brooks said.
September 26 marked the first
day for classes. Since then. there
have been a kw changes to the
content of the program such a', the
addition of a landscape unit.
"The program was set up to he re-
ceptive to change." Brooks said.
"We keep modifying the program
to improve it."
The Tech 21 program is based on
the philosophy of cooperative proh-
lem-solving. The modules are de-
signed to he completed with mini-
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mal instruction from the teacher.
Instead the students are expected
to work problems through together.
Basically. the program is a new -
aged version of the traditional de-
sign and technology program. "It
was a merging of the old with the
new." Brooks said.
()n Thursday morning. Grade 8
students -from Exeter Public School
were grouped throughout the open -
area classroom working on a num-
her of different projects.
In the kitchen area. for example.
two groups of students were hard at
work cookii.g pizza. The first group
was making it from scratch. while
the other group made it from a box
- to see which would taste the hest.
ivleanwhilc. another group was
busy learning how to construct a
bridge. They read manuals and
then tried to design their own.
Another group was learning
about Robotics. Manuals gave
them a bit of history about the sub-
ject and step by step instruction 00
how to make the robot function.
Others were busy sewing, doing
woodworking or trying to tap into
the Huron County Board of Educa-
tion office bulletin hoard by coni-
puter.
Brooks said having the students
at the centre for the day gives theta
more time to work on each project.
When the program. was located
at different schools across the
county students only had 80 min-
utes to work on projects.
While students only come to the
centre six times -a year. Brooks said
they actually have more hands-on
time for each project.
The bottom line from many board
officials is that the program is
working despite grumhlings last
year about moving the program to
one central location, not to mention
the number of times the entire de-
sign and technology program was
considered for sacrifice as the
hoard struggled to make budget
cuts.
In the end the board managed to
cut costs by centralizing the pro-
gram. As it stands, only three
teachers work full time at the centre
in comparison to eight teachers
needed when the program was scat-
tered through the county.
Dereck Lozon shows his expertise in the
kitchen.
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