A Pathway To Graduation

Automotive
The lab will be divided into four sections and a group from the public will be invited to tour these stations. The stations will offer students a showcase to provide basic car care tips and knowledge to assist consumers with making informed decisions on their car care while offering communication tips for dealing with shop owners, service writers, and car care professionals. Students will devise the format for the stations and will create/present these information sessions to the public.

Aviation
These students will fully restore a MiG 17 Russian fighter from its “arrived at MAPS condition” to how it was last used in the early 1960s by the Polish Air Force. This involves extensive research for authenticity and restoration in addition to skilled craftsmanship and aircraft understanding.

Building Trades
In conjunction with MAPS (the Military Aviation Preservation Society located at the Akron-Canton Airport), students in Building Trades are refurbishing one of the large rooms at the museum into several smaller rooms complete with bathroom accommodations. Students are reading and interpreting blueprints, installing studs, insulating walls, installing and finishing drywall, performing basic plumbing and wiring projects, and priming and painting the ultimate product. These rooms and the student work will then be presented to the community for their use and enjoyment.

Cosmetology
Students are responsible for completing multiple projects for consideration of their capstone piece. In addition to an additional mandatory 45 hours of on-line coursework, Cosmetology students are also required to complete a 100 hour, Ohio Cosmetology and Barber Board approved internship with a local salon. Students keep a journal and several hour logs documenting this experience and, in addition, the documentation for both of the aforementioned projects is also included within the students’ final portfolio which contains numerous other projects, photos, journals, essays, and pieces of evidence to support growth and learning. These portfolios can also assist students with ultimate career and college placement.

Culinary Arts
Students will complete a large portfolio project focusing on numerous classroom components and specialty culinary areas in addition to documenting how students have met the rigorous ProStart culinary standards. This large portfolio will be judged, evaluated, and shared at the program’s completion and students will be able to utilize the portfolio for college and career interviewing.

Electrical
Students have been very busy re-working and renovating their own Electrical Technologies lab including several re-wiring projects. Students have completed extensive drawings and renderings regarding what the ultimate revamp will look like and have accounted for cost, budgeting, time management, project deadlines, and supplies. At the end of the year, students will present the finished lab to the staff and the community at an Open House event where all students will be required to present his/her major contribution to the project.

Engineering
Students will exhibit knowledge of commercial building design by creating all blueprints for and producing a physical model of their own personal commercial building including a site plan, floor plans, structural system plans, interior design, work schedules, mechanical and electrical system requirements, construction documents, and renderings. The physical models will be on display for staff and community.

Enviroscape Technology
This capstone allows students to individually select a “passion” project for self-guided reflection, research, and study. Students create their own project drafted from start to finish including fundraising for costs, creating work schedules, presenting project findings in both oral, visual, and written pieces, and continuously meeting with the instructor to assess progress, anticipate setbacks, monitor budgeting, and seek advice as needed.

Fire Academy
Students will complete Fire Extinguisher Training and evaluation and are then responsible for teaching this training during 2 weeks of scheduled training times with both PLCC students and staff.

FOM
Students complete numerous building and repair projects on the Dragon Dream Team dock at Rex Lake. The construction and repairs are the culmination of months of budgeting, planning, work scheduling, compiling resources, monitoring costs, and solving numerous problems and tasks along the road to ensuring effective time management and delivering the proposed products and projects on time.

HVAC/R
Students have been working at MAPS to inspect, layout, calculate duct size, fabricate, install, and seal the connections for a massive project at the museum. This project will assist MAPS to open more of their museum for use to the public.

NCT

Students will be presented with a real-life case where a network needs to be designed for a company. Students will be able to choose from a few cases focusing on specific requirements of company networking. Students will work towards submitting a packet tracer file that simulates the network they will build and a funding proposal anticipating their budgeting needs. Students will ultimately physically build the network they virtually envisioned in their packet tracer.

Placement Students
Students on work placement as one of the options as a senior here at PLCC opt to participate in work experience and in utilizing their skills in the field on job placement; however, these students are also required to complete a capstone involving extensive journals, self-reflection, and assessment of their own workplace experience. Students are also required to submit visual aids and photographs of their accomplishments at work and are responsible for presenting a major speech to their program focusing on their placement experience.

Pre-Nursing
Students will self-select independent study projects to research, study, and investigate with a focus on covering, identifying, and communicating healthy interventions, addressing the national and state agendas for wellness, and identifying the needs of individuals, families, and communities with regards to health considerations. Students will be responsible for a research proposal focusing on four large research questions and a devised study timeline, an 8 to 10 page research paper, an 8 to 10 minute oral presentation to the class, and a culminating comprehensive portfolio including a self-evaluation.

Programming and Software Development
Students will choose a project for self-directed learning (approved by instructor) culminating in a class-wide presentation on project findings/project creation. Students must complete a daily activity journal documenting progress, set-backs, discoveries etc, and prepare for/attend weekly check-in meetings.

Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine students have been assisting in the design/implementation of exercise programs and documenting fitness assessments for members of the senior firefighting class. Students will specifically focus on one student in the second semester of senior year documenting and studying progress in the area of body composition, cardio-respiratory fitness, flexibility, muscular strength, and endurance. This will culminate in a presentation to both classes.

VDI
Students will complete a music video including components like writing the script, storyboarding, editing, producing, and ultimately presenting and unveiling the video to the class for class-wide evaluation and critique.

Welding
Students will create/read blueprints to ultimately produce a functional mobile medical simulator by converting a retired BK-117 Hull helicopter. This new medical simulator will ultimately be used by medical professionals in the field. Students will utilize advanced aluminum TIG welding and fabrication to accomplish this goal and will document/reflect/and journal their progress.