Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY New Classes Highlight The Industrial Technology Department The Industrial Technology Depart- ment seems to have been zapped over the summer. This year when the school year started, the teachers were faced with to- tally new courses — Graphic Communi- cation Systems, Electronic Communica- tions Systems, Constructing Structures, Construction Planning and Design, Transportation Systems, Energy Sys- tems, Community Planning, Designing and evaluating Transportation Systems, Manufacturing Materials and processes and Product and Manufacturing System Design. If you like to print products, work with computers, make things and work with your hands, then maybe you should consider signing up for one of these courses next year. Department Head Mr. Wayne Wel- lington says, The courses are now more working with your hands. You hardly ever do book work. The teachers are adapting well to the newness of the courses. The department is still working collectively trying to integrate the old with the new curriculum while they are waiting to see how the students like the new courses. The change was inevitable, with the world of technology shifting so rapidly in the real world , the school must change to prepare the students for a more realis- tic situation in the job market. And with the reality of job skills for today's mar- ket, Industrial Technology meets the needs of students to prepare them for today's world. Jennifer Hardy Top: Future architect, Nichole Wilson, isn't going to let her Wilson Bridge fall down as she double checks her measurements. Above: No, it's not knight school. Mr. Hester dem- onstrates a lathe to his students as he faces off the end of a metal shaft. 26 Industrial Technology

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Treva Carroll, Department Head Theresa Calhan Rita Gaither Shirley Hembd Nancy Ratner Bonita L. Rice Maria Adams, not pictured Top: Sampling the fi nished products is probably the high- light of a cooking class. Obviously, Brian Watts agrees, as he goes for thirds. Above: Jamika Hale recreates an old tradition by passing the time sewing and chatting. Bottom right: Teamwork is the spirit in the Home Eco- nomics Department as Tracy Evans and Darvina McVea confer on a project. Keiowa Arnold listens in to benefit from the conversation also. Home Economics 25

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JV Left: Which tool should I use? Damon Falconer asks himself while he's in the tool shed. Above: Damon Lacey cuts up in class, but it's O.K. He's working the band saw in Industrial Technol- ogy class. Below: A sense of pride and satisfaction is felt by Senior, Antonio Robertson as he builds his model to exacting specifications. 1 .;. . HM 1 M m end of a metal shaft. Left to Right: Wayne Wellington, Department Head Lowell Hester Steve Taflinger Industrial Technology 27