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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
If there was one impression I took from my short stint as a judge at the Northern Regional Technology Education competition, held last month at Rappahannock County High School, it was that Technology Education has come a long way from the “shop” classes offered when I was in school.
I wasn’t surprised to see demonstrations of the latest computerized technology' at work in manufacturing, like a computer-operated lathe. And I knew about the Computer-Assisted Design classes offered for mechanical drafting students at the high school.
But I wasn’t prepared for Graphic Design, Public Speaking, Technical Report Writing,- radiocontrolled and gas powered cars, and Bridge-Building. Those competitions were a far cry from the woodshop, metalshop and drafting courses which everyone was required to take while I was in school.
For me, and for college-bound students like me, those classes fulfilled a requirement, and were never thought about again. There were two tracks: vocational education and college preparatory. The two tracks seldom mixed.
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