BGTC Trip and jobs ...

After getting my Genetics class started, we loaded Bus #56 (six trips to Key West and many other trips ... my favorite bus, 218,000 miles and counting) for a trip to Bowling Green Technical College.   Should have taken some pictures but in my hurry to leave school, forgot my camera.

http://www.bowlinggreen.kctcs.edu/

We took 31 students, most from our Selected Topics in Science class (mostly juniors) and a few seniors.  After a short talk from the admissions representative (the ACT is important!), we split up into two groups to tour the campus ... auto mechanics and body shop repair, culinary, radiology, welding, fire and rescue, HVAC and several more, all on the main campus.

We then moved nearby to a second campus for information technology and business classes.  Afterwards we ate lunch (most went to Taco Bell, where a couple of students set a record for most tacos consumed in 40 minutes).

We finished the day at the TransPark location ... machine tool technology and engineering technology ... electronics, applied fluid technology and robotics.

The instructors were great, they talked to our students at most stops ...  and our students were well behaved and attentive.  I hope some of students will consider BGTC as an option after high school ... very affordable (less than half of a 4-year public university per year).  Most students are out in the work force in two years and the coursework is transferable to WKU or any other KY public university if he/she decides to continue their education.  We saw five Patriot alums attending classes while visiting the campus.

Several of the technical options had an employers waiting list for graduates ... that is important!

Got back to school for the very end of fourth block.

Tomorrow we will wrap things up for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Genetics will be finishing our study of respiration and have a small lab on properties of water.  Selected Topics will continue our study of evolution and population genetics.  We are checking our Visual BASIC problems 1-4 in Computer programming.