What Class I Would Add

The Return of Wood Shop and Introduction to Drafting

Woodworking,design of things, and building things has always been a passion of mine. Ever since I was little I have been building things with my dad since I was little so if I had been giving the chance to bring a class to Wood-Ridge High School, I would bring wood shop. This class would require a new room filed with machines and supplies needed to complete the class. This class would meet twice a day,once in the morning and once in the afternoon, where in the first meeting, students would be more geared toward drafting and blueprinting and later in the day is when the building would happen, unless ample building time is needed where in which both class times could be used for it.

The inspiration from this came from my freshman year where i took a drafting class then right after I had a contracting class. For the drafting class students would have to produce full blueprints by their Senior year and for the contracting portion, the students would work as a team to put up a small house. For the drafting section, the students would use CAD, an online blueprinting software, which is widely being used by architects now a days. Most assessments would be two part, or sometimes three. A two part assessment would consist of the blueprint portion grade combined with a hands on demonstration or build. A three part would have a written portion along with it.