Workshops
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Presenter | Desscription | Audience |
| Robin Schooley | Demo of New WorkSafe Apprenticeship Portal This workshop and demonstration offers a look at the new WorkSafeBC Apprenticeship Portal. Our new, easy to navigate portal gives you access to trade and topic specific publications, videos and other resources aligned to provincial program outlines, eliminating the need to gather information from multiple sources. The portal aligns you with the most current health and safety regulations and the newest and most up-to-date resources. | General |
| Ivor Langley | Wood Puzzles Introduction to four different wood puzzles used as intro projects for all of my wood classes. Two easier ones for the Wood 8/9 classes, and two more complicated ones for the Sr Wood classes. My students construct these puzzles with hand tools only which can be quite challenging for some students. We will discuss lesson plans, construction techniques, and plans for all puzzles will be supplied. | Middle/Secondary |
| Casey Mynott | Electric Drag Racing Delta Secondary instructor Casey Mynott discusses the process so far, our debut at Mission Raceway, accomplishments, challenges, looking forward, and fields questions. If time and logistics permit we will be giving rides and maybe burning some rubber! | Secondary |
Mario DeCarolis, iDesign | STEM - Science,technology, engineering,art and math | Middle & Secondary |
| Shawn Meville | Building electric guitars How to build electric guitars with high school students. Learn about the pitfalls and shortcuts along with the jigs, fixtures and necessary tools to build a guitar. | Secondary |
| Les Neufeld | Construction and use of an adjustable longboard / skateboard press. Students use this press to laminate boards with compound contours, and can adapt it to design and create longer or shorter boards, different cross sections and even drop deck boards. The workshop will detail how to make the press (not difficult) and will provide a copy of instructions for making and using the press. | Secondary |
| Jason Brett | Surface Mount Soldering Made Easy Surface mount soldering is the industry standard technique for attaching components to circuit boards. It allows faster production, lower manufacturing costs, and the ability to squeeze many more components into the same amount of space. With a good heat gun and a steady hand, your students can enjoy many of the same benefits in your electronics shop. Come prepared to try your hand at surface mount and gain access to all those SMT components you've been wanting to use! The boards produced in this workshop can be used in the "PIC Microcontrollers the Free and Easy Way" workshop. Note: If you have trouble focusing on small objects at close range, you may want to bring a magnifying glass. | Secondary |
| Jason Brett | PIC Microcontrollers the Free & Easy Way Introduce your students to microcontroller programming with the free and user-friendly "Great Cow Graphical Basic" and the very easy to use PICKIT2 programmer (almost free… $40 from Microchip). To participate in the lab activities, bring your own solderless breadboard. A free PIC microcontroller will be given to the first 20 participants with their own breadboard! (Alternatively, attend the "Surface Mount Soldering" workshop and build your own surface-mount PIC proto board.) | Middle School |
| Rob Gibbs | Fabricating and Machining a Drill Press Vice An often used and curriculum encompassing project presented in a step-by-step instructional power-point. This project is age and skill appropriate for grade 10-12 metal work students. Handouts will also be supplied. | Secondary |
| Travis Burroughs | Arduino Robotics We will be using a photo resistor – ultra bright LED combo sensor and an h-bridge chip to build a sensor driven motor control. This circuit it the fundamental component to building automated sumo bots and line following bots. One person attending this workshop will win a Arduino Uno board courtesy of Lee’s Electronics. | Secondary |
| Eric Munshaw | Sensor Circuit Inspired by BCIT's Sensor 101), from vacuum forming (home built), circuit design, PCB construction (close to 100% success rate) to project assembly. Resources and parts ($5.00 fee) provided. | Middle/Secondary School |
| Eric Munshaw | Middle School Technology An overview of a broad based program based on design (wood, metal, plastics, electronics, structures, transportation, CAD and mechanisms). Resources and teaching methods will be presented. | Middle |
| Paul Boscariol | BCTEA Best Practices Guide This session will go through the newly released Best Practices Guide and allow attendees to discuss the document and ask questions. | General |
| Dave Liversidge | Vinyl Signcutting | Secondary |
| Pat Beck | 3d Modeling | Secondary |
| Rick Classen | A Complete Robotics/Engineering Program From Lego Mindstorm to Vex Robotics.........From simple circuits to Arduino........ This workshop is intended to show what can be done in a Robotics/Engineering program from Grade 8 through 12. Sample projects, ideas, course outlines and HANDS ON experience building/programming robots will all be covered. This, as always, scrounging and sourcing parts/supplies for cheap will be discussed. | Secondary |
| Doug Blue | Making Repousse Belt Buckles Learn how to make repousse belt buckles. All the tools and materials necessary to make one at the conference will be provided. Take home some written info and design ideas to make your own jigs, punches, etc. | Middle/Secondary |
| Tonya Perry | Architectural 'Pool House' Design and Model If you are looking for a Drafting project that you can do with students with multi-levels of CAD experience - this might work for you. This small Pool House project allows beginning students to develop or experienced students to enhance their Architectural knowledge and CAD skills of various architectural styles, floor plan design, electrical designs, multi-gable roof design, auxiliary views, basic kitchen design, elevations, basic construction methods and model building. At the end of the workshop, you will have a copy of the project, slide presentations to supplement the project and lots of ideas on how to implement this project and have all the different levels of students working on one project while expanding their knowledge base. A USB stick would be an asset. | Secondary |
Les Wiebe TRU | Introduction to Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) The workshop will be highlighting the Advantages and Disadvantages of the process. A number of work stations will be set up for everyone to practice their skills. Workshop session is limited to 12 participants per session. | Secondary |
| Brent Carter TRU | Marine Power Sports How re and re a 2 cycle engine. Come learn some tricks and ideas. This is a hands on workshop. | Secondary |
| John Wrigley TRU | Automotive Mech. Air conditioning, it’s pretty cool. This session will cover AC servicing. | Secondary |
Dana McIntyre TRU | Residential Electrical Wiring basics, getting that switch to turn things on. | Middle/Secondary |
John Pratt TRU | Heavy Duty Operator Ever wanted to try your hand at operating an excavator? Come try the new heavy equipment simulator at TRU! | Middle/Secondary |
| TBA | General Canada i-Carver This session will introduce particpants to an economical and yet effective option for CNC routing. The workshop will demonstrate the easy to learn i-Picture programming software and show examples of the types of projects possible on this machine. | Middle/Secondary |