Helping out Mr. Fuini at Prince Tech with trash for his forensics unit. Seniors in Vinal Technical High School’s Criminal Justice and Protective Services program raised money to have a hundred teddy bears made for sick and injured kids. Each bear has a note of encouragement as well! Seniors Jenna and Eliz delivered their project to Hartford Healthcare’s Hunter’s Ambulance today to distribute to their ambulances as well as CCMC. Excellent project! Just an average Tuesday in shop! Got to play in cell block 5D the Connecticut Juvenile Training School today with the freshmen from Prince Tech’s CJPS program and learn a little about what it is like in juvenile jail. We used it as an opportunity to take a deep dive into verbal deescalation techniques that we use in the trade to “win” arguments and break up fights before they happen. Acted out some deescalation scenarios and hopefully created an army of students that can help break up fights before they happen. Also had a tour of the grounds before more pizza than anyone could eat courtesy of Mr. Fuini and I. Fun day. Pretty great students who make teaching fun… don’t let it go to their heads 😜😂 Seriously fun day training with Prince Tech on the Connecticut River. Both classes joined together to set up a drone rescue base of operations and then teach about a dozen students how to fly the drones. We went through three hours of batteries! We got to stretch our new disaster shelter out and some camo netting for shade. A few sunburns and some muddy pants but a great day! Check out the amazing pictures! As our Juniors near the end of their EMT program, it's important to go over all the safety considerations with one of our more common calls; car accidents! A HUGE thank you to Middletown Deputy Chief Ehman for being such a great narrator and explaining everything to the students. A huge thank you to the MFD crews and also to Nelcon Towing for the vehicle donation. Awesome day! With the horrible tragedy in Baltimore unfolding, we decided to move our emergency operation center to alert status to monitor any way we can help. Students did an amazing job modifying their EOC command structure to meet the challenge and bring freshmen who have not been trained yet up to speed. Impressive work. Today the Prince Tech freshman visited our shop at Vinal, and we were happy to show them around! We gave them a shop tour, and both classes were introduced to all the instructors before a student meet and greet. Lots of laughs and meeting new friends. We ended the meet with a little student torture (because that’s what we enjoy most as teachers) with a sardine eating challenge! So funny. See you again soon Prince! Since we ran out of time, apocalypse goggles had to be made… of course. FUN DAY! First warm day of the year… sometimes you just have to have some fun with your peers and bond. Fun time and lots of laughs. Also… has any of the parents been in one of these things since elementary school?? Was pretty fun actually ha! We had a ton of fun with a surprise Police vs Fire vs CJPS Hot Ones Wing Challenge! Trying to always keep everyone on their toes not knowing what to expect in shop, this certainly “spiced” things up a bit! Shockingly, all the contestants made it through all the hot sauces although Mr. C was clearly the weakest link in the hot sauce chain. Fun time!!! Fun day getting up to one of our favorite places, the Connecticut Fire Academy. Good friend of the shop and CFA instructor Mr. Zygmunt gave the students a fun tour of the facility, a peek into the world of firefighting, and a cool introduction to the current class of recruits. Fun day! Lots of laughs and general mayhem. |
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