Hands-On

Episode 04, Season 02 - EMT & Firefighting

In this episode of Hands-On, host Kaleb Ranquist talks with Diane Charrier about her experience in the EMT program, as well as her experience as a former Firefighting student.
Afterward, host Aiden Guerette talks to the instructor for EMT and Firefighting: Mr. Bill Wentworth about what students do in class, and what to expect out of the programs.

Episode 03, Season 02 - Commercial Truck Driving

In this episode, host Shane Craig talks with former Commercial Truck Driving student, Dean Demmer, about his experience at Tri-County Technical Center, and his current career.
Afterward, host Kaleb Ranquist talks with one of the two Commercial Truck Driving instructors, Thomas Baer, about what students do in the program.

Episode 02, Season 02 - Early Childhood Education & Solar Thermal Collector

In this episode, host Shane Craig visits the Early Childhood Education program and talks to instructor Allyson Gudroe and one of her students: Baylynn Grant.
Shane then talks to student Hunter Kelly and instructor Nick Mullins of the Energy Systems Technology program to discuss their new solar thermal collector (a solar panel that heats air on its own!).

Episode 01, Season 02 - Ogden, Darling’s, Trades for Maine, Devan P.

Welcome to Season 2 of Hands-On, the podcast of Tri-County Technical Center. This episode features Mark Ogden of Ogden Mechanical, who stopped by TCTC recently to talk to students. Find Mr. Ogden here: www.facebook.com/ogdenhvac/
We also have segments with Kim Cotta of Darling's of Bangor. They've just recently created a new location in Newport and stopped in to donate a car to TCTC! How nice is that? Darling's can be found here: www.darlings.com
Lastly, we have a short audio segment from a recent Trades for Maine, and then a student interview with Devan Pelkey of our CISS program. It's a great start to a new season! Happy listening!

Hands-On Season 2 Promo

A promo for the upcoming second season of the Hands-On Podcast. Please welcome two of the hosts: Kaleb Ranquist and Aiden Guerette.

Episode 10: Meet Andrew Doughty

On this episode, we interview the 2022-2023 Student of the Year Andrew Doughty. He recently participated in the state of Maine's Skills USA down in Bangor competing as a firefighter. He won the state competition and is now going to the national competition being held in Atlanta in June. Currently Andrew is enrolled in the EMT program; he took firefighting however his first year at TCTC. Hope you all enjoy this episode of Hands-On. 

Episode 09: Job Opportunities at TCTC w/CTD Program

Being a student at Tri-County Tech comes with many opportunities post-secondary education. However, this student Cayden Brown is a second-year student in the Commercial Truck Driving program, and he works at St. Albans Custom Homes and Excavation as a dump truck driver locally. He was given the chance to start work after his first year in the program. Now, instead of going to CTD class, he just has to go to work! We also get the chance to interview Paul Lachance, owner of St. Albans Custom Homes and Excavation about why he started up this company, and also why TCTC is important for these students. There are many more opportunities like this in other programs. We hope that you enjoy this episode of Hands-On!
 
Link to CTD Website Page: http://tricounty.mainecte.org/program/commercial-truck-driving/

Episode 08: Computer-Aided Drafting and Design (CADD)

This episode of Hands-On contains interviews with instructor Scott Wilhite and student Cadence Bachelder. They discuss interesting topics about the program that you may find cool! This is also the first episode to have a news segment about different stories going around TCTC. Hope you all have fun listening to this episode!