On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 15:20:26 -0400, BAR wrote:

I don't know the shop classes you took but, the ones that I took in 7th, 8th and 9th grade
were invaluable in determining what I like to do and what I wanted to do in the future. I
even took an auto mechanics class and an electronics class. The one the served me the best
was the MIS class.

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I built a one transistor radio in 8th grade shop class when I was 12
years old. It was bread boarded on an old 2x4 and didn't look like
much but it was a huge step up from the crystal radio that it started
from. A friend of mine once borrowed it with out telling me why. He
ended up winning the local science fair with it.