Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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hop Classes sr' 4 ,V I F. C2 - of th jd Phil Kelleg pre-intern from Florida State leads off the egg dropping from the business figrgufigiiy,-nggztZ,,7i,,ZZZCh,7Zf3Z,, 022 education wing. Wmfred Paul follows up,with the test of his design. Underneath them of the industrial 0,5 Offerings- teachers and students await the outcome of the experiment. Bm 7 W

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Eggs Take Drop in Containers Built by General lt's raining eggs! An egg just fell from the sky! Can the birds be missing their nests? No, it's only the general shop class doing alittle experiment. To understand the process that industry uses in devel- oping new techniques and equipment, the shop students dropped eggs in small containers from a 20-foot height. The trick was in not breaking the egg. Students analyzed the problem, made several tentative designs, constructed the models, and then tested them. Needless to say after the first test many students were sent back to the drawing board. General Shop and dropping eggs from rooftops was only one of the many things that Industrial Arts offered. Another was the construction class where stu- dents learned skills concerning construction. Students were introduced to the pneumatic hammer, mixing and pouring concrete, wiring, and plumbing. The industrial arts department introduced the con- struction to ninth graders as part of a pilot program the instructors undertook for Leon County. fBelo wj Roddy Mathis tests a radio for the resistance in the wires in his basic electricity class. fRiyhtj Angelo Morris, Mark Bruce, Marion Norton and Bruce Thomas finish the frame to a shed in their ninth grade general shop class which studied construction. ...1 I 422- .4-ali -Le

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Agriculture Boys Farm School's Land Near F.C.l. ll Q'-A Students learned many valuable farming skills in Agri- culture. Forestry, Farm Mechanics, and Horticulture were offered to advanced agriculture students. The agriculture department used 40 acres of land near the Federal Correctional Institute. The land was set aside for the agriculture departments of Rickards, Godby, and Leon. The land was used as a miniature experimental farm, so students could gain experience working with a fairly large amount of land. Students learned how to plow with a tractor and to do various other jobs such as draining a pond so they could repair a dike. Horticulture students used the greenhouse to grow orna- mental plants that could not stand much cold and to root plants so that they would be ready and all preparations would be complete for spring planting. ln Farm Mechanics students learned how to keep farm equipment in good working order and how to make minor repairs on that equipment in case something should go wrong. Also students were shown the proper methods of using various farm tools and machinery. fLeftj Agriculture students johnny Paramore, Leonard Berry, Mike Simmons, Hans Mayberry, and johnny Kelly weed in the greenhouse as intern Mr. james Harrington looks on. fBelowj Not everything works the Hrst time. Larry Wonsch and Mr. Meeks try to free a tractor that is mired do wn in the mud on the new plot of land near the FCI and A palachee School