Personnel from the Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center (CWCTC) visited Penn-Trafford’s elementary schools to meet with 5th-graders during March and April. The ‘roadshow’ was developed to make students aware of the different opportunities that CWCTC can offer when they reach high school, such as welding, construction trades, powerline, sports medicine, robotics engineering and manufacturing, culinary arts, cosmetology, and protective services.
After an explanation by CWCTC staff about what CWCTC offers, Penn-Trafford High School students who are enrolled at CWCTC, as well as other CWCTC students, ran various interactive stations for the 5th-graders to rotate through. Some of the activities included painting a car using virtual reality, driving a skid steer using a simulator, trying on powerline gear, trying cosmetology equipment, driving robots, and using 3D zSpace computers.
Fifth-graders Joey Ekis, Lucas Antonucci, Hudson Evanovich, and Natalie Shannon learn the different cutting methods used for cooking and baking, before brainstorming different kinds of dishes that would require each cutting skill
A construction trades student demonstrates to Boden Ruzich, Lorenzo Milos, Maxwell Law, and Jack Wetzel how to assemble pipes of various sizes to move sewage and water waste