Thank you Harbor Freight Tools of Presque Isle for supporting Career and Technical Education (CTE). Our Industrial & Farm Mechanics students are using their new surface conditioning tool to strip the Educational Farm’s plow and get it ready for a fresh paint job.

Our aquaculture program is proud to announce that it has become part of a grant with the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin, Maine. The grant is a USDA Rural Development investment that will be used to connect CCAR with schools throughout the state of Maine. Funds will allow for the…

Here at Presque Isle Tech Center, we learn by doing! Our Industrial and Farm Mechanics students learn a wide range of skills in the program. Here, students are learning how to run beads with the SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) or stick welding. They will learn to weld in the flat, horizontal, vertical, up/down and…

The Agricultural Science block has completed their annual science fair projects. Due to Covid restrictions, they did not have a Science Expo again this year. Students did create a video recording of their presentations to share with a limited number of people. These are pictures of the completed boards and projects. Hopefully, next year will…

What makes agricultural chemistry agricultural? Here’s a good example! For the past few weeks, we have been studying the chemistry of fertilizers – what nutrients plants need and how fertilizers can provide them in the proper form. Last week, students formulated three different fertilizers and then tested them for phosphate content using a colorimetric analysis….

Children, their teachers and the high school students at the ACAP Early Care and Education Center at the Presque Isle Regional Career and Technology Center (shown here), and at other locations are participating in movement breaks. Coordinated by ACAP’s 5210 Let’s Go Program, education was provided at all sites including PIRCTC, Gouldville, and the Birch…

The students in Aquaculture and Animal Sciences had the opportunity to visit one of the State’s fish hatcheries. The salmon were not quite ready to spawn so students helped sort the fish by gender in the raceway. They were able to see eggs in the hatchery that had been collected the day before. Students also…

Check out the WAGM news clip on our apple cider mill!  

What is the best way to start off the new school year in Mr. Harper’s Engineering Technology program? With a cool project of course! This project is for the Stanley Museum in Kingfield, Maine and consists of reverse engineering and fabricating a valve assembly for the gas headlight system used on Stanley steam-powered automobiles until…