Category Archives: Occupational Education

Typography (Eric Menninga)

Typography originally referred to putting text on paper using inked blocks (think Gutenberg using metal bits to make books).  However, in modern usage – partly due to computer’s central role – the term “typography” has expanded to mean pretty much all graphic design that uses text.
In this class we’ll look at Typography from a number of different angles, including:
1) History: metal type, presses, wood type
2) Font design
3) Poster design (short text)
4) Book typography (long text)
5) Marketing / branding with type
  • Outside work: Occasional throughout the term

Yearbook, etc! (Sieglinde)

In this yearlong Yearbook Class, students will edit, design, create, and print a 24-25 PSCS Yearbook. The theme will be decided as a team, likely through community process, and applying it to a really cool archive of the year.

Together we’ll plan the layout, timeline, and create a draft in Canva (easy to share, easy to organize, on the cheap). Folks who join will have the opportunity to write copy, take and organize pictures, and create pages/spreads that capture our community and activities. The final result will be printed and shared with the community in June.

  • Outside work: A small amount (e.g., <30 min) for each session

Danny Woo Community Garden (hannah)

We will volunteer up at our local community garden, Danny Woo. PSCS has established a lovely relationship with this garden which has been providing a space for members of the CID community to grow food since 1975. Volunteer tasks include weeding, planting flowers, feeding chickens, tending to the compost, and infrastructure projects. Open to all.

  • Outside work: No outside work

Adulting (Amy)

Back by popular demand – AND now extended to TWICE a week!!!

 

Becoming an adult is exciting! It does, however, come with new responsiblities.  This class will offer you hands-on opportunities to learn about getting jobs, opening bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and more.  

 

This class is personalized to expose you to life-scenarios that embody what YOU want for your future.

 

Adulting satisfies the WA State recommendation that students receive Financial Literacy education in high school.  Class is open to all students.

Required texts/materials: Books/materials will be acquired for you. The instructor will procure the texts/materials.

  • Outside work: Occasional throughout the term
  • Minimum students: 2
  • Sessions per week: 2

Young Eagles (Scobie)

Note: This class is open to high school students only.

Young Eagles

2/15/2013--Everett, WA, USA..A line of Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets are parked nose-to-tail at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials say they are temporarily grounding Boeing's 787 Dreamliners until the risk of possible battery fires is addressed. In the meantime Boeing is parking 787s all over Paine Field which sits across a small highway from the buildings where they are being built...©2013 Stuart Isett. All rights reserved.   four of Scobie's happy students after their successful Young Eagles flights.

Have you ever considered becoming a pilot or seeing what it’s like to become one? The class will include guest speakers, aviation history, field trips, and a chance to fly a real airplane.

  • Learn about the basics of aviation and prepare for your first flight!
  • During the term, get an official Young Eagle’s demonstration flight in Scobie’s own back country airplane, or with master pilot Bob Stoney in his restored Cessna Bird Dog.  You’ll get to try out the controls and help with radio work, etc.
  • As an added bonus, once you complete it, the official Young Eagles flight unleashes a whole host of fun and valuable benefits through the EAA, including access to free video ground school for your own pilot’s license.

Important Notes:
If you’re not in high school yet but really want this opportunity, talk to your advisor about how you’ll take a mature approach, and if you can get them to send me a brief recommendation for your participation, that will probably do the trick.

This class requires parent permission and if you want the Young Eagles flight, will require parents to sign a Young Eagles waiver. Scheduling the flight will be weather dependent and you and your family may need to prioritize weekend time, be willing to re-schedule, and participate in transportation efforts to get your Young Eagles flight completed at Paine Field in Everett.

  • Outside work: Occasional throughout the term

Leadership (hannah)

Student leadership! Calling all students who want to learn about and practice how to be a strong facilitator and collaborator; develop and execute projects on behalf of the school; set goals and give/receive feedback; and find creative solutions to issues facing the school today. 

Leadership will look a little different this term. As Maggie is teaching a class specifically devoted to running events, Leadership will no longer plan things such as the Halloween, other holiday parties, or Creative Cafe. We will still plan and lead Community Engagement Days and days of whimsey. I hope to do more collaborative projects with community partnerships. We can also spend more time developing specific leadership skills, thinking about how to improve systems of the school, and establish other projects as ideas arise. Open to all. 

  • Outside work: Occasional throughout the term

Shop Life Session 1 (Scobie)

 

 

 

 

 

If you can dedicate two slots to shop life this fall, you’re welcome to take both sessions, or just one. As always, we’ll be learning about tools and how to use them effectively, serving as a useful crew for repairs and improvements around the school, working on the shop itself. In addition to those basics, fall term will include:

-Exploring ‘automata’, a kind of moving sculpture
-Working on the all-compostable bamboo and hemp canoe!
Putting final touches on “Frank” the PSCS student-sized mannequin.

  • Outside work: Occasional throughout the term

Shop Life (Session 2)

 

 

 

 

 

If you can dedicate two slots to shop life this fall, you’re welcome to take both sessions, or just one. As always, we’ll be learning about tools and how to use them effectively, serving as a useful crew for repairs and improvements around the school, working on the shop itself. In addition to those basics, fall term will include:

-Exploring ‘automata’, a kind of moving sculpture
-Working on the all-compostable bamboo and hemp canoe!
Putting final touches on “Frank” the PSCS student-sized mannequin.