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Burnaby South Secondary
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ADST - APPLIED SKILLS
Applied Skills is an introductory course for grade 8 students. Rather than a traditional classroom setting, this class incorporates hands on, project-based learning that pushes students to be innovative, creative, and learn by doing. This portion of ADST is Applied Skills where students delve into all aspects of drafting, electronics, metalwork, and woodwork. Experiencing creative design, collaborative classwork, and the safe use of tools and machinery, students will have an interesting and fun learning atmosphere.
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ADST 8 - Applied Skills is on a rotation, meaning that students rotate every semester. They will be in Applied Skills, Home Ec, or Business Education for one semester each.
DRAFTING
Drafting is a great course that will help students obtain a working knowledge of the fundamentals in design and drafting. The drafting courses will go over the use and understanding of different tools used in the industry, as well as the terminology that is needed to be successful if the student were to pursue a career in this field. 3D shapes, multi-view drawings, orthographic design, and AutoCAD are just some of the few concepts and experiences that the student will have in this course. As this course is heavily project-based, it is important for the student to attend class and do the work that is assigned.
ELECTRONICS &
ROBOTICS
Applied Design, Skill, and Technology (ADST) is an introductory course for grade 8 students. Rather than a traditional classroom setting, ADST incorporates hands on, project-based learning that pushes students to be innovative, creative, and learn by doing. This portion of ADST is Technology Education where students delve into all aspects of drafting, electronics, metalwork, and woodwork. Experiencing creative design, collaborative classwork, and the safe use of tools and machinery, students will have an interesting and fun learning atmosphere.
ELECTRONICS &
ROBOTICS
This is an applied skills course that incorporates both electronics and robotics in where students will learn the basics of circuitry – names of components, their functions, schematic symbols and diagrams and the layout of circuit boards, breadboarding, etc. They also get to delve into robotics, primarily using VEX robotics as the resource of learning.
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Upper level students in grade 11/12 decide to choose if they want to pursue electronics or robotics, and choose a certain stream. If they choose to go toward electronics, students further their knowledge in circuit reading and creating projects with electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, IC chips, etc.
For Robotics, students are fully immersed into VEX robotics. They learn how to design and build for certain challenges, as well as learn to code using a program called Robotc. Throughout the year, students will have a chance to compete against each other or sometimes even against other schools.
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The courses offered in this section are the following:
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Electronics & Robotics 9/10
Electronics 11/12
Robotics 11/12
WOODWORK
This is an applied skills course in where students will learn the basics of woodworking. Students will have a prescribed project that will help them to develop a broad set of skills and knowledge of machines, while using it all in a safe manner.
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This course is project based; Students will be marked on their participation in class, attendance, and the quality of projects that are turned in.
*There will be mandatory safety quizzes for each machine that they will be using at the beginning of the year. Students must pass all the quizzes in order to start working in the shop.*
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The courses offered in this section are the following:
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Woodwork 9
Woodwork 10
Woodwork 11
Woodwork 12
TECH EXPLORATIONS
Do you like to sketch, draw, design, plan, troubleshoot, model, & make things by using a variety of tools & materials? Then Tech Explorations is for you.
During the year, students will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills through hands-on activities. You will be designing, constructing, and producing solutions to problems/various challenges. In Tech Explorations, we will have the opportunity to work with a variety of tools and machines as we work together through many projects. Students will have the opportunity to learn hands-on skills.
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Listed below are some projects that we do in this course:
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- Technical drawing
- Rubber-band powered racer
- CO2 dragster racer
- Solar vehicles
- 2L pop bottle rockets
- Engineering unit (design & build Truss Bridge)
- Crash pods
- Boomerangs
- Mag Lev vehicles
- And more!