Cobourg students explore skilled trades through hands-on ‘Take Tech’ event

C.R. Gummow Public School college students received to discover the expert trades by means of hands-on tasks throughout every week of ‘Take Tech’ occasions in Cobourg.

The occasions had been just lately held throughout the board by means of the Pathways division on the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board.

Danielle Moher, a Pathways guide on the board, mentioned particular funding was acquired from the Ministry of Education to “have a look at revolutionary methods to get children enthusiastic about taking technological schooling after they get to highschool.”

She mentioned the hope is this may result in extra college students becoming a member of the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program and Specialist High Skills Majors applications, which can be found in Grades 11 and 12.

“We’ve had a number of curiosity and plenty of courses collaborating,” she mentioned. “We offered a prototype package to courses the place that they had some supplies to find out a necessity of their college and design a product that fills that want.”

Moher mentioned each applications can be found at Cobourg Collegiate Institute.

Matt Penney, a Grade 7/8 instructor on the college, informed Northumberland Information that three Grade 7/8 French Immersion courses took half in designing and constructing the prototypes.

“We appeared across the college for issues that we might repair, issues that we might enhance, and located that there weren’t sufficient inclusive video games for youths to play at recess or at gymnasium class,” he mentioned. “We thought that yard video games are ones that may get all people concerned, energetic and doing one thing.”

He mentioned college students selected to construct washer toss, ladder toss, cornhole video games.

“The children are having a blast and so they’re studying a lot,” Penney mentioned. “They’re getting so many useful expertise about trades, future profession alternatives and simply having a variety of enjoyable on the whole enjoying with the instruments.”

Alison Osborne, the principal at C.R. Gummow Public College, mentioned Penney was doing “wonderful work” along with his college students.

“He has been actually working with the youngsters, partaking them within the studying and it actually helps them see the purpose of all the educational they’re doing,” she mentioned. “They’re right here, they’re in a position to really see the explanation they do math, the explanation they do that considering and this studying, and so they’re really going to create one thing.”