National PAS Competition

March 13-16th NICC John Deere Tech participated in the National PAS Ag Machinery Service Technician Award program at the National PAS Convention.Riley Miller, Drayce Webster, Michael Starling, Derek Mann, Mackenzie Miller and Alex Schultz qualified at state competition and made the trip to Louisville, Kentucky with Rodney Necker to compete in a full day of testing.

Riley Miller and Drayce Webster 2nd place team.

Michael Starling and Derek Mann 3rd place team

Mackenze Miller and Alex Schultz 6th place team

Individual Placing

Riley Miller 3rd

Drayce Webster 4th

Michael Starling 6th

Derek Mann 10th

Great Job!!

Drayce And Riley

Michael and Derek

Alex and Mackenzie

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State PAS AMSTA Competition

We traveled to Iowa Lakes to compete in the 2018 Iowa Ag Machinery Service Technician Award Competition. The competition included a written test, measuring, parts ID and several lab projects. Eight students from John Deere Tech competed and did a great job. We will be off to National competition in March. Great Job!!

Alex Schultz and Mackenzie Miller 1st Place

Riley Miller and Drayce Webster 3rd Place

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John Deere Information Technology

We welcomed the sophomores back for the dealerships in November for John Deere Information Technology Class. This year we merged more emissions training with Service ADVISOR Certification because the are so closely tied together. We had the computers running for everything that we did from live connections, diagnostics, parts lookup, controller software updates, emissions testing and sales presentations.

Not everyone shares my enthusiasm!

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Electrical/Electronics I

We introduced the freshman to their Fluke meter and had several opportunities to put it to use. Electrical/Electronics class introduces the students to components, electrical theory, circuits and testing. We still may be looking for that voltage that we dropped!

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Implement Class 2017

Time is flying by! We have just completed the second class with the students that started in August. We had some fun at Fall Fest and then we learned about sprayers, balers, planters and AutoTrac. Here are some pictures.

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Fundamentals and Safety 2017

We got the Class of 2019 off to a great start this week. After a few days of sitting in the classroom we have introduced the group to a little safety, metric conversions and John Deere WBTs (Web Based Training). We have a 9600 combine to part out this year so let the fun begin.

John Deere Tech Calmar!

2017 Graduation

Well another year has past and it is time to say goodbye and good luck to another class. It seems like only yesterday that this group started but two years have passed and its time they move on to new adventures. Congratulations to the Class of 2017

National PAS AMSTA Results

Eight of our students competed in a group of 36 students at the Iowa PAS Ag Machinery Service Technician Awards (AMSTA) competition at Fort Dodge in December. Six of our students (3 Teams) qualified to compete at National PAS AMSTA competition in St. Charles, Missouri. Twenty-three teams from across the nation competed in a competition that involved a written test, parts identification, measuring and several lab stations. The students represented us very well.

1^st place individual- Dakota Kalis

2^nd place individual- Brian Remington

1^st place team- Dakota and Brian

3^rd place individual- Garrett Thompson

6^th place individual- James Bearbower

2^nd place team- Garrett and James

12^th place individual- Luke Asche

13^th place individual- Logan Clancy

7^th place team- Luke and Logan

 

 Brian and Dakota

 Garrett and James

 

Logan and Luke

 

 

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