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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Cool school! My little city had a "technical" high school and an "academic" high school. I think I went to the wrong one.  |
The woodshop teacher had been there for a long time and his building was separate from the rest of the classrooms. He got to develop courses that interested him. He also taught electronics, which is where I learned enough to tinker. Most people had an interest in fabrication processes, but mine was in the electronics and physics of efficiency.
I got a group of interested kids together into a "club", and we were allowed to enroll in woodshop, yet be given credit for working on the electric car. It was so much fun that the woodshop teacher turned it into an official class.
Don't know how the class was funded as we solicited donations for all our materials. Reynolds Aluminum supplied the aluminum tubing, Les Schwab donated batteries, bike shops donated custom wheels, etc. We borrowed the MIG welder from the maintenance guy, and experimented with battery chemistry by getting sulfuric acid from the science lab.