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They spent the semester going through each step required to build a doghouse so that they are prepared to guide their own students in the activity one day in technology education classrooms.
Then, they donated the doghouses to Southeast Kansas Animal Advocates.
“Every time we can help our fosters cut some of the costs of fostering additional animals, it definitely helps encourage other people to become fosters,” said Susan Bastion, director of the non-profit organization.
The students are majoring in Technology & Engineering Education and are taught by an alumnus of the program, Assistant Instructional Professor Trevor Maiseroulle (BST ‘16, MST ‘18, EdS ‘19), now in his second year of teaching in the Crossland College of Technology.
The program prepares students to be licensed teachers of industrial technology, technology education, and pre-engineering at the middle and high school level (grades 6-12).
The program is housed in a state-of-the-art lab in the Crossland Technology Center, and focuses on hands-on, activity-based classes in communications, power, energy, transportation, materials and processes, construction, manufacturing, design, robotics, 3D prototyping and more.
Maiseroulle brings to the university his own experience teaching technology education classes for eight years at the high school level, and earlier this year was the recipient of an international Distinguished Technology Educator Award.
“My goal for them is to not only learn the basic processes of construction, but how to teach it to their students when they go out to teach in their own classrooms,” he said. “They go through the whole process: floor framing, wall framing, roof framing, all the way through.”
Students completing the project include Gage Davenport, Hannah Reilly, Melanie Wright, Kendryc Walker, Will Niffen, Jack Banman, Dylan James, and Darian Francis.
“For us, it helps us prepare for the classroom because we watch our teachers teaching us and see how they handle safety and other aspects,” said Davenport, a junior. “We learned a great deal and at the same time got to give back to the community.”
Recognized as one of the leading Technology and Engineering Education programs in the U.S., the program has had nearly 100 percent placement of graduates over the last 10 years. Faculty and students have earned numerous national recognitions and awards.
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