TN College of Applied Technology Food Drive

TN College of Applied Technology at McKenzie hosted the annual food drive for the local United Neighbors of Carroll County.  The school held a competition between classes to see who could raise the most cans.  For the second year, the Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration class, along with their instructor Terry Wilson, were the winners with a total of 117.96 cans per student, which totals approximately 2713 cans.  Second place went to the Computer Information Technology class, who raised a total of 93.09 cans per student (approximately 1769 cans). Third place went to the Administrative Office Technology class with a total of 75.59 cans per student (approximately 1663 cans).  The overall number of cans raised this year was 8198, which exceeded last year’s total by approximately 2900! The food will be distributed back into the Carroll County community through the United Neighbors program.

TCAT-McKenzie would like to thank all the classes and instructors for their participation. We are extremely proud of the students, faculty and staff for their help in making this year’s food drive the most successful one yet!

TCAT McKenzie Newly Elected SkillsUSA Officers

Congratulations to your TCAT McKenzie SkillsUSA Officers for 2015-2016 year.
  L-R:
 Hunter Turner (HVAC)-Parliamentarian
John Weems (Welding)-Reporter
Patricia Barnett (AOT)-Treasurer
Michael Johnson (CIT)-President
Savannah Marlar (Welding)-Secretary
Brandon Perry (HVAC)-Vice President
Robert King (Electronics)-Historian

New Officers pictured here with past President, Justin Page

TCAT McKenzie helps with 2nd Harvest Food Bank

TN College of Applied Technology at McKenzie had 39 students volunteer to help with the Mobile Food Pantry in Greenfield on September 30^th.  The event was sponsored by Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee and Sacks Thrift Avenue/Sacks Food Pantry.   16 of the 39 students were TNPromise students and were able to earn 4 of the 8 community service hours needed to maintain their TNPromise scholarship.

Once there, the students were split into two groups.  Group 1 helped to unload the truck and organize the food items, while Group 2 assisted in packing the food and cleaning up afterwards. 

Second Harvest has a network of over 450 Partner Agencies working together to feed hungry men, women and children throughout our 46-county service area. Second Harvest collects, sorts and distributes food and personal care products to over 450 partner agencies throughout 46 Middle and West Tennessee counties.

 The organizers and the community were grateful to the students for all their help and were thankful to TCAT-McKenzie for allowing the students to take time out from their classes to volunteer.

Perfect Attendance-Summer 2015

Twelve students achieved perfect attendance for the 2015 Summer Trimester at TN College of Applied Technology at McKenzie.  Those students receiving Perfect Attendance Certificates were:  Administrative Office Technology – Doris Berryhill and Merlene Pritchard; Automotive Technology – Ashton Beal, James Collins, Austin Iverson, Jason Kelly and Cody Lockhart; Industrial Maintenance – Jeffery Shavers, Joshua Cary and Tommy Gunter; Production Automation – Christopher Adams; Welding – Jason Lyles.

Jason Lyles and Jeffery Shavers also obtained the distinction of maintaining Perfect Attendance for the entire length of their enrollment.

TCAT McKenzie would like to congratulate these students on their outstanding achievement

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First Graduates from Production Automation Technology

Pictured from l-r are:  J.D. Hauhe, Jereamy Smith, Kelon Johnson, Wyatt Walker and Colten McAlister

These five students are the first graduates of the “Production Automation Technology” program offered at the Dresden Campus of Tennessee College of Applied Technology at McKenzie.  All will be receiving a “Production Automation Technician” diploma.   The students studied courses in Industrial Electricity, Residential Electricity, Three Phase power, Motor Controls, Programmable Logic Controllers, and Robotics.

J. D. Hauhe will be employed at Kohler in Union City.  Jereamy Smith will be employed at Jones Plastics in Camden. And Colten McAlister will be employed at ABB in Alamo.