PIRCTC held is annual CTE End of Year Celebration on May 24th with a cookout and social time.  Students brought in non-perishable food items for two weeks while having a contest between programs morning and afternoon classes to see which class could bring the most items.  Early Childhood Education afternoon class were the winners with…

Building Trades – Wyatt Fullen Farm Mechanics – Thomas Patenaude Early Childhood Education – McKenna LaFave Drafting/Engineering – Gabrielle Beaulieu Cosmetology – Meaghan Dubie AgriScience & Natural Resources – Emma Burby Business – Molly Kingsbury

On Wednesday May 22nd, the school farm hosted the honorable Minister Ross Wetmore and his staff.  Minister Wetmore toured the school farm facilities as well as the CTE center in hopes of starting a similar agricultural program in New Brunswick.

Farm Mechanics student, Cody Tucker, recently finished a welding project of a deer head. Congratulations Cody on a job well done! Recently, our afternoon Drafting & Engineering Technology students were learning the value of math in engineering and how it can be used to solve complex problems. In engineering guessing the answer is a major…

Agricultural Chemistry students recently spent a week at the school farm cider mill participating in all aspects of the apple cider production process. Students pressed and bottled cider. Their production total for the week was 23,760 ounces; 1720 of which were 8 oz. bottles with the rest being a combination of pints, quarts, half-gallons and…

Earlier this month our Farm Mechanics and Building Trades students put the finishing touches on the circa 1926 logging sled for the Maine Forest & Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine.  Coupled into long sled trains and pulled by either steam or gasoline powered Lombard log haulers, sleds such as these were a common sight here…

The Presque Isle FFA Chapter conducted a food drive to benefit the GIFT food pantry during the first two weeks in November.  GIFT feeds approximately 36 needy families in our community each week.  Our FFA chapter was able to collect 405 individual food items from the homerooms of Presque Isle High School to donate to…

On Thursday Sept 13th Mr. Harper’s Drafting & Engineering Technology students toured the University of Maine at Orono Engineering Technology programs. The students visited and learned about a variety of programs including Electrical Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Construction Engineering Technology, and Survey Engineering Technology. In addition, they also toured the Advanced Manufacturing facility and…

On October 18th, the Early Childhood class took the Head Start children to the Presque Isle Fire Department for a field trip.  It was a cold and windy day but fun was had by all.  The children got to tour the fire department and got to walk through the trucks.  They also got to try…

Students in the Aquaculture/Natural Resources program traveled to the Mactaquac Hydroelectric Generating Station in New Brunswick on Tuesday, October 23.  The Mactaquac Dam is an embankment dam used to generate hydroelectricity in New Brunswick. It dams the waters of the Saint John River and is operated by NB Power with a capacity to generate 670 megawatts of electricity from 6 turbines; this represents 20 percent of New Brunswick’s power…