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Show , ' "J MACHINE SHOP CLASS New equipment has been added to the Davis Area Vocational Center's machine shop class housed at Clearfield High School in an effort to give students as close to a realistic learning experience at possible. S. or on Tuesday or Thursday in class. ACCORDING TO an article in "Time" magazine dated July 6. 1981 entitled "Shortage of Critical Skills" some 31.000 machinist and machine operator oper-ator jobs will become available annually and only approximately approxi-mately 2.300 new workers will be trained for such jobs. Local companies are going outside the state to find skilled workers because they are not available here. THE PAY scale in Utah ranges from approximately $6.50 per hour for those with training but just beginning in the trade to over $11 per hour for those with several years experience ex-perience and proven convenience. conveni-ence. In an effort to help more people prepare themselves for these opportunities the Davis Area Vocation Center is offering offer-ing evening classes in a variety of trades and skills. The machine shop will be taught in the Clearfield High School Technical Bldg. and offer classes clas-ses either Tuesday or Thurs day evenings from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Students may register for both evenings or just one as their circumstances permit. Student!) interested in personal person-al projects or the hobbist are welcome. THE COST to the student is just $1 per hour of enrollment plus material and tool fee. More information can be obtained from the DAVC by calling 766-244 1 . Students may register at the office, 550 E. 3rd CLEARFIELD Two ver-ticle ver-ticle milling machines are nearly near-ly $1000 worth of filmed demonstrations de-monstrations were recently obtained by the Davis Area Vocational machine shop to more effectively meet the training needs of the program. THE SCHOOL maintains an open entry, open exit policy which allows students to begin and terminate their training at any time. For example, at the present time in the machine shop class there are students who have been in the program for as long as four months and others who registered as recently re-cently as yesterday. Two students who had been attending five days a week 61: hours a day recently found work in the trade and terminated termin-ated their training. THE NUMBER of hours the student attends per day varies with each student. While most of the students attend 6': hours a day five days a week, a few attend three hours a day and some are only able to attend three days a week. Those who are able to attend most finish faster and are able to find employment sooner. Often those Vho can only attend part-time become discouraged dis-couraged before they are able to complete their training. |