Archives: Student Success
A lot of neat projects are happening in Mr. Harper’s Drafting & Engineering class! One project is the design of a proposed road for the Maine Forest & Logging Museum. Over the past few weeks Connor Rideout has been working hard developing numerous proposals and alternatives, integrating changes per the museum’s direction and developing the…
The Presque Isle FFA Chapter participated in a statewide Homelessness/Food Insecurity Project. Students delivered an order of paper goods and cleaning products to the Sister Mary O’Donnell Homeless shelter in Presque Isle and made a $150.00 donation to the Grace Interfaith Food Cupboard. Students shopped for the items on Friday, February 5 and delivered them…
Chance Bragan is Building Trades student of the quarter. Chance is a second year student in the Building Trades program and is a student aide in the afternoon. Chance works well with all of his classmates and is a hard worker. He has been a big help to the substitute teachers in the program with…
Good things are happening in the PIRCTC Drafting & Engineering Technology program! We are pleased to announce that three of our Drafting & Engineering Technology students are recipients of Pulp & Paper Foundation scholarships to the University of Maine. Connor Rideout, Ian MacKinnon and Conner Michaud were each awarded a four year, $3,000.00 per semester…
The AgriScience student of the quarter is Rheanna Ortman. Rheanna is a student in both Animal Science and Natural Resources and she serves as our FFA Chapter President. This is Rheanna’s third year in our program and she has grown and matured tremendously. She is an enthusiastic participant in all of our activities. She does…
Though our PIRCTC Drafting & Engineering Technology students have been hard at work on their dual enrollment courses with the University of Maine College of Engineering. They have worked on a few neat projects. One project is a collaborative project with the University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing to reverse engineer and fabricate a new radiator…
Business students, Taylor Hedrich and Aaleyiah Poisson presented speeches recently at the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame Awards Dinner. Congratulations to Sam Collins and Kris Doody for being honored! We are very excited for opportunities such as these where our students can showcase the skills they are learning at PIRCTC! Way to go Taylor and…
Jessica Cameron, PIRCTC Alumni and University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) Admissions Counselor along with Carolyn Dorsey, UMPI Associate Professor of Business visited the business program to speak with students and share a fun business activity.
The Plant Sciences class learned the basics of micro propagation at the school farm with the help of Randy Martin. The students have started some Beech trees and some clippings off of our raspberry plants that are on the MSAD #1 School Farm site. The students learned how to use sterile techniques when working under…
Agricultural Chemistry students recently completed a unit on the apple cider process by pressing and bottling apple cider at the MSAD #1 school farm. Many thanks to Kristi Kingsbury for all her help in making this project possible.