Students attend vo-ag workshop
Tyler Shaddix operates an arc welder under the watchful eye of Perry Holmes, agribusiness instructor at Union Hill School. | Clif Knight
Nine seventh and eighth grade students from Lacey’s Spring and Eva schools participated in a three-day welding and woodworking workshop at Union Hill School last week.
Blake Golden, left, and Wyatt Holmes display the horseshoe gun racks they made at a welding and woodworking workshop at Union Hill School last week. | Clif Knight
They received instruction from Union Hill’s agribusiness teacher Perry Holmes and learned the basics of welding as well as the operation of electric shop equipment.
To demonstrate their newly-acquired skills, each student made a horseshoe gun rack.
“Students at Lacey’s Spring and Ryan don’t have the opportunity to take agribusiness classes,” Holmes said. “That’s why we opened our shop to their seventh and eighth grade students during the summer break.
“Hopefully, these three days of working with welding and woodworking equipment will give them a better look at the courses that will be available to them when they attend Brewer.”
These students completed a three-day welding and woodworking workshop at Union Hill School recently. Pictured, from left, are: (front row) Wyatt Holmes, Jared Holmes, Jonathan Holmes and Cole Maples; (back row) Tyler Shaddix, Blake Golden, Haden Holmes, Jake Cantrell and Zachary Benefield. The instructor was Perry Holmes, agribusiness instructor at Union Hill School. | Clif Knight
“We decided to start this as a pilot project and were pleased to have nine students sign up,” he added. “Most of them were unfamiliar with the shop equipment we use but they proved to be fast learners. All of them did a great job making their gun racks.”
The workshop was the focus of a tour and a smoked chicken dinner on Thursday. Guests included Morgan County Schools Supt. Bill Hopkins and school board members Jeff McLemore and Paul Holmes and school principals Robert Elliot of Union Hill, Patrick Patterson of Eva and Lane Alexander of Lacey’s Spring.
Union Hill School’s agribusiness instructor Perry Holmes gives Morgan County Schools Superintendent Bill Hopkins a sneak peek of the smoked chicken, which was served at a welding and woodworking Workshop last week. | Clif Knight
