Industry and Trades Continuing Education Training

Advance your SketchUp Pro skills in this practical, project-focused course designed for woodworking, carpentry, and remodeling enthusiasts. This class will help you master tools and techniques to create detailed, accurate designs for furniture, cabinetry, home additions, and remodeling projects while improving your modeling efficiency. Each session introduces advanced SketchUp Pro features, including working with components, modeling from photos and references, plugins, and rendering. Instruction will also cover SketchUp Layout, guiding the creation of professional-quality plans and presentation documents. Students are encouraged to bring their modeling projects. Class time is dedicated to both structured instruction and open project work, fostering collaboration and problem-solving as students tackle unique design challenges. By the end of the course, participants will have refined their technical skills and developed polished designs ready for execution or presentation. Prerequisites: Experience using SketchUp Pro, completion of an introductory SketchUp course, or instructor consent.

Explore the fundamentals of woodworking while learning how to safely and competently use the table saw, jointer, planer, miter saw, hand tools, and drills. Students will complete a basic exercise for each tool and can choose from two offered projects to build and take home.

Continue exploring the world of woodworking while learning more in depth techniques, joinery, routers, and project planning. Students will have more independent shop time and build an offered project or an approved one of their choosing.

This course is intended to help you feel more confident in understanding a variety of vehicle systems. The class will be presentation followed by hands-on lab time. You will learn topics including fluids, tires, brakes and more, so that you may do it yourself when needed. This course will also help prepare you to discuss issues when your vehicle needs to be repaired.

Embark on a creative journey in woodturning! Woodturning involves shaping wood on a lathe to create items such as bowls, vases, and pens. In this course you and your classmates will rotate between woodturning and tool sharpening, engaging in hands-on learning experiences. You will learn essential techniques, culminating in four unique projects. Whether a complete novice or having some experience, this course offers the foundational skills and confidence to pursue woodturning as a rewarding hobby in a safe and supportive environment.

In this hands-on experience you will learn how to use power tools to build a couple of projects. This class will focus on safe use of circular saws, jigsaws, table saws and miter saws. You will also learn about drills and drivers. You will learn how to lay out and build a small 2x4 stud wall, and then learn how to measure, cut and build a step stool/tool carrier, which you get to take home.

An initiation into the residential inspection process and the first of two classes to prepare you for taking the State of Wisconsin Home Inspector exam. Includes soils, foundation, exterior roofing, venting and insulation and construction of a new home.

Second and final course preparing the student to take the State exams needed to become licensed. The course deals with various elements of a home including plumbing, electrical and heating systems.

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This introductory class is open to all levels and will cover the fundamentals of welding and plasma cutting as you make a pre-determined garden sculpture or seasonal decor.

Create your own metal sculpture using a combination of fabrication and welding techniques. This class will expand your knowledge of welding and sculpture design as you make your own personalized art. Students must have taken "Art Welding for Beginners" or have prior welding experience.

Are you interested in learning how to weld? This is 3 week introductory welding course geared toward ages 14-17 year olds. Types of welding we’d be covering are week 1 SMAW (stick welding), week 2 GMAW (mig welding), week 3 TIG welding. We’ll cover basic mild steel and touch briefly into stainless steel TIG welding the last week! Students should wear proper shop attire (jeans, long sleeve shirt and leather boots) to each class.to each class.

Elevate your welding skills in this 4-week intermediate course designed for high school students. Perfect for those with basic welding experience, this class focuses on advanced techniques, real-world applications, and project creation. Class will include Advanced SMAW (Stick Welding) techniques, mastering precision and out-of-position welds, GMAW (MIG Welding) with thicker materials, multi-pass welds, and troubleshooting and TIG Welding on stainless steel and aluminum, emphasizing finesse, control, and high-quality welds. You will apply your skills to functional and artistic projects.

Students develop manipulative skills on all types of joints in the flat, horizontal and vertical up and down position using short circuiting transfer. Students will perform gas metal arc welding techniques using 1/8" to 1/2" structural fabricated parts, as per AWS code standards. Emphasis is placed on operating gas metal arc welding equipment in a safe manner and determining machine set-up for metal thickness, wire size and speed. Part 1 of 2.

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Part 1 of 2: Introductory course designed to provide the learner with a basic theoretical understanding of the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process. Emphasis is placed on welding safety, equipment set-up/adjustment and developing manipulative skills using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Process. Welding skills are developed by performing a variety of weld joints in the flat and horizontal position on mild steel and stainless steel. Welding electrode identification, applications and shielding gasses are also addressed.