2007 HVAC/R & Plumbing Instructors Workshop March 28-30 Lansdowne, Virginia

1. 2007 HVAC/R & Plumbing Instructors Workshop March 28-30 Lansdowne, Virginia Student Recruitment and Promoting Career & Technical Education in the Community Scott Naill Tony Trapp

2. Q: Tell us a little about your program including the average number of students, HVAC or plumbing, and your retention rates. Items to include can be: A: The Upper Valley JVS is located in Piqua, Ohio 20 minute north of Dayton Ohio. In the Fall of 2005 Upper Valley JVS dedicated a 40,000 sq. ft. Science Technology expansion on the main campus and it included a newly built 3,500 sq. ft. HVAC/R lab and training center. The average number of students the last 5 years 35-40 students which includes Juniors And Seniors.

3. Q: How is your program structured?Certificate: • Students receive varies certifications: *OSHA 10 hour training *Lockout/ Tag out training *608 EPA Refrigerant Certification *Scissor Lift Training *DDC “Direct Digital Control” Trane Tracer/ Tridium *CPR *Fire Alarm *NCCER Accredited (National Center of Construction Educational Research)

4. Q: How is your program structured?Degree: • We have articulation agreements with Sinclair College located in Dayton, Ohio and Northwestern College located in Lima, Ohio. • Explore new methods of educational delivery. • For next school year we are piloting an advanced refrigeration class to our Apprentice Students which will be offered by Sinclair Community College and delivered in an online and face to face format. • We are now working with Sinclair, HVAC/Educational. Net, Ferris State, Emerson Climate Technologies and other partners on a National Science Foundation Grant to create educational career pathways.

5. Q: How is your program structured?Apprenticeship: • We offer an apprenticeship program for those students who qualify. The qualifications are: • 2.5 GPA or higher • 95% attendance or better • Recommendations from all their academic and Career Technology teacher.

6. Q: Do you have any specialized HVAC/R courses training that you feel are an enhancement or offer an edge over other programs? * Emerson Climate Technologies Wholesalers/Suppliers Training 2 times a year ( Copeland Compressor Operation and Service Seminar) Offered through Educational Services division. *OSHA 10 hour training *Lockout/ Tag out training *608 EPA Refrigerant Certification *Scissor Lift Training *DDC “Direct Digital Control” Trane Tracer/ Tridium *CPR *Fire Alarm *NCCER Accredited (National Center of Construction Educational Research)

7. Q: Do you offer job placement assistance? • A: Yes, we have an employment resource center that is staffed with a full time coordinator. Mr. Trapp and myself help students develop resume and teach them soft skills to acquire a full time job.

8. Q: What is your job placement rates and average starting wages? • A: 93% job placement rate averaged over 5 years. • 56% Post-Secondary Rate. This percentage will raise next year with the blending of the apprenticeship/ Tech Prep program. Students will earn Sinclair College Credit via online pilot program which will be in place next school year. HVA 186 Modern Refrigeration Practice advantaged course. • Varies $9.50 hr to $13.50 hr

9. Q: What methods do you use in job placement? • A: Employers recruit students their junior year. I like to explain it best as a “Football Draft” Employers scout out the students and make appointments to check on the student’s progress throughout the school year. Students are expected to introduce themselves to the employers when they visit the lab. Students who excel and show maturity will be the first recruited with the higher paying jobs.

10. Q: What has been the most effective method you have used to recruit students into your program? • A: Letter sent by employers on their company letterhead. We provide a contact list with students names and address to employers and the employer do the rest! The employers are the ones who sell the program. We have also have set up an email distribution list of all the employers and supporters of the program. This distribution list helps communicate our needs to the employers. We send the list of students interested and who visited the program through the year. We also just recently developed our new www.uppervalleyhvacr.com website to use for another avenue to communicate with our employers. • We developed a professional recruitment video with the help of $10,000 National Dissemination Grant. • The video is distributed to students, parents, and associate school counselors.

11. Q: What has been some ineffective recruiting method for you? • A: The teacher trying to be the only one selling the program.

12. Q: What is the biggest obstacle you face in recruitment student into your program? • A: We have a very strong construction trade program which consist of Electrical, Carpentry that we compete with. Interested students se HVAC/R field. It is not an easy program to promote to others.

13. Q: How does your school/ program reach out to the community to reach potential students? • A:JVS posters delivered and displayed in each of 57 k-12 associate schools; advertising (paid for by adult ed) in associate school athletic programs; news/media releases; cable TV programs; tours of JVS for parents, students, community and service groups and senior citizens; presentations by JVS staff and student ambassadors to elementary, middle, and high school students; open houses for students and parents; Another Look Day for sophomores; letters to parents and students; postcards to students; student ambassadors to Piqua Rotary Club once each month; personal follow-up with interested students at their high schools; mail and phone contact of interested students by JVS instructors; JVS staff and administrators involved in a variety of community clubs, activities, boards, etc.

14. Q: Do you have any strategies for dealing with a multicultural community? Any second language offerings? How do you handle those? • A: Yes. We incorporate multicultural students in all of our print and video/DVD materials and include, whenever possible, multicultural students in the events listed above (#5). • No second language offerings. • I encourage students interested in a second language to take it at their associate schools or through PSEOP at Edison.