Our School year in Central FL is coming to an end.
Our school was under massive scrutiny this year and I was made to feel more like a reading teacher (applying LFS strategies in our lesson plans) than and auto shop teacher. Almost no work was done on the Electric T project, but we did buy the brake lines, caliper kits and wheel cylinders and most importantly our system for monitoring the eleven batteries that power the car. They all have to be monitored since the do not discharge equally and empty is determined by the lowest battery.
When we left off last year we had problems with the inboard batwings hitting the shackles but that was fixed by cutting off the inboard batwings and welding two new batwings outside of our outside batwings allowing the shackles to move with out contact.
Our Auto Program will be closed at the end of this year at Gause Academy in Bartow FL but I and the Electric '27 T will to Ridge Career Center (Vo-Tech) school and I have to get the High School program NATEF certified and they want to bring in the AYES program in as well both of which I have done in the past.
They closed Culinary Arts, Graphic Arts as well. The plan is to replace these with more classes developing work place computer skills.
We will have more resources at Ridge, like a Paint and Body shop, Welding..and a PLASMA cutter and for the Electric Vehicle side I'll have an Electrical teacher to share ideas with.
Once we begin next year making progress I'll send PICTURES for us Hands on Guys!
Thanks everybody for getting us this far.
Lee
Our school was under massive scrutiny this year and I was made to feel more like a reading teacher (applying LFS strategies in our lesson plans) than and auto shop teacher. Almost no work was done on the Electric T project, but we did buy the brake lines, caliper kits and wheel cylinders and most importantly our system for monitoring the eleven batteries that power the car. They all have to be monitored since the do not discharge equally and empty is determined by the lowest battery.
When we left off last year we had problems with the inboard batwings hitting the shackles but that was fixed by cutting off the inboard batwings and welding two new batwings outside of our outside batwings allowing the shackles to move with out contact.
Our Auto Program will be closed at the end of this year at Gause Academy in Bartow FL but I and the Electric '27 T will to Ridge Career Center (Vo-Tech) school and I have to get the High School program NATEF certified and they want to bring in the AYES program in as well both of which I have done in the past.
They closed Culinary Arts, Graphic Arts as well. The plan is to replace these with more classes developing work place computer skills.
We will have more resources at Ridge, like a Paint and Body shop, Welding..and a PLASMA cutter and for the Electric Vehicle side I'll have an Electrical teacher to share ideas with.
Once we begin next year making progress I'll send PICTURES for us Hands on Guys!
Thanks everybody for getting us this far.
Lee