Graduation 2013

In August of 2011 we started with 40 anxious students who were just waiting for this day so they could go out to put their mark on the world. During the course of the first year 3 of them decided that pulling wrenches  on John Deere equipment may not be how they wanted to accomplish that.  However, 35 of the 40 have completed all of the requirements of NICC and John Deere so we  honored them with a banquet on May 15th. Hopefully by the end of the summer semester we can add two more to that list. Here are some pictures. Congratulations gentlemen! It has been a fun ride.
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Electrical Certification

100% of the sophomores survived the one of the last big challenges of their John Deere Tech Career. On May 10th after a couple weeks of preparation the students started arriving in shifts to take the online version of the John Deere Electrical Systems Overview. You could certainly feel the tension in the air as they proceeded but one by one with a little excitement and a small cheer they all successfully completed the task at hand. Now the only thing standing between them and graduation was an Electric II performance test and a dirty shop.
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