New Toy

So what could be better than Service Advisor on a 55" screen? Marcus and Brion won first place National PAS Ag Mechanics contest and we had a little prize money to spend so we decided to buy a TV for the program so it won't be so hard to look at a computer screen during class. Here is a couple pictures.

Thanks Marcus and Brion too bad you aren't here to watch it.

Racing!

We had the opportunity to do a little recruiting at the Iowa Speedway at Newton today. It was an Iowa John Deere Dealers sponsored race. I talked Lori into going along so we left home at 4:15am to get there before the fans. We talked to a lot of people and gave out more foam antler visors than I care to remember. There were several former students stopped into chat and that is always fun. At noon we got ready for the race and we had awesome seats. We were in the second row near the finish line. We were so close there were rubber particles flying at us when the cars went by. Rodney was looking out for us and sent along headphones/hearing protection or we would be deaf by now. The second lap Lori looked at me and said "This looks like fun but I want to be driving." At the end of the day we decided that we drove 150 miles farther the drivers and it took us three times as long. I took a little video to help you get the picture.



Banquet Snapshots

We had the John Deere Tech Banquet and Open House on May 11th in the John Deere Tech building and in the new cafeteria. There were 28 graduates this year and their guests included parents, employers, friends and representatives from John Deere. Congratulations men it has been a fun 2 years. Here is a link to some photos.

https://picasaweb.google.com/JDTechCalmar/Graduation2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCMDric_dpuujSg&feat=directlink

John Deere Tech Staff

Precision Farming Practice

Yesterday we had a little playtime with the AMS toys.We played with everything from Auto Trac Universal, Curve Trac to ITEC Pro, Here are some pictures of the ride through the pasture.

Thanks to the Class of 2010

We finally used the gift certificate from the class of 2010. We had a bit of a hard time getting everyone together and at the last minute Jim couldn't make it. We will get him out sometime to make up for it. We also brought Rodney and Laura along now that he is part of the team. My wife was there as well but she was taking the pictures.

Thanks from the JD Tech Crew.