Safety Harbor Middle School - Reflections Yearbook (Safety Harbor, FL)

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Above: Jason Defazio and Jill Whitley concentrate on their typing in Mr. Morig's business class. Left: Jason Zaborske works diligently at the sewing machine creating his sewing project. Vocational 77

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Vocational classes prepare students for CAREER GOALS There are many courses that fall under the title of vocational electives. These include wood shop, power and transportation, home eco- nomics, agriculture and business and computers. Woodshop is one of the most popular electives. Students enjoy working with the machinery and creating projects to their personal tastes. During the prosess of making these projects, students 76 r Vocational familiarize themselves with various power tools and equiptment. Home economics is a three part class that in- cludes cooking, sewing and personal develop- ment. The teachers try to improve self-esteem and self-confidence by teach- ing leadership and inter- personal relationships. Students also enjoy mak- ing tasty foods in cooking and sewing stuffed toys in sewing. Above: Jamil Akram and Mi- chael Dunphy work on their projects during shop class. Right: Justin Moulton works on a transparent keychain. He en- joys making the various projects in shop class. Power and transporta- tion includes using power tools, the building of rockets, disassembling an engine and learning about mechanical tools and parts. Agriculture is the working with live ani- mals and farming. Stu- dents learn how to use the land to their advan- tage and how to interact with non-domestic ani- mals. Business and comput- ers is an introduction to basic computer programs and business manage- ment skills. American en- terprise is fluently ex- pressed throughout the course to make students more aware of the free enterprise system. In the vocational class- es students learn many of the necessary skills need- ed to pursue a career goal.

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Students completed their drawings With 1 A STROKE OF THE PEN t Architectural drawing and graphics are intro- ductory classes to basic architecture and basic printing methods. Both classes, taught by Ms. Chenault, require skills in art, math and geome- try. They give the student a taste as to what the job is like in the printing field and various me- chanical drawing careers. The architectural drawing course is taught on an advanced level and it includes desiging, drawing and building Above: James Smith helps Charles Armesto on his eleva- tion drawing. Right: Ms. Chenault instructs Keith Gilkes and Jenna Streett on their de- sign. 78 T Architectural Drawing an Graphics scale models of a house. Each six weeks grading period a different draw- ing is featured. These are plot plans, floor plans, el- evations, perspectives and many other draw- ings. The course also fea- tures an introduction to basic, and complex, ar- chitectural and engineer- ing tools. These tools are used in the proper man- ner as students complete their drawing. The fifth period archi- tectural drawing class al- so worked on several oth- er projects such as electrical, plumbing, heatingkooling and en- ergy conservation plans. All of the plans were car- ried out to proper scale and measurements. Dur- ing the course of the year, the students worked on these drawings with de- termination and dedica- tion. This paid of, for the they learned how to make certain designs more ef- ficient and more econom- ical.