Apprenticeships & Engineering Education

In 2013 Kent Misegades, Owner & President of AeroSouth Technology, founded the North Carolina Triangle Apprenticeship Program (NCTAP) along with Raleigh (NC) - area manufacturers. He wanted regional youth to have the same outstanding career-entry path into engineering and manufacturing that he knew from his years working in Europe. Inspired by the pioneering work of Apprenticeship 2000 (Charlotte, NC), NCTAP leaders set up a world-class program in less than a year, strictly guided and funded by partner companies and following best practices used for centuries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Kent can help your company create an apprenticeship program that will provide your company with a world-class workforce. Contact him now to explore possibilities.

Basic lessons in life skills are nearly extinct in American schools, the result of bad decisions from the 70s & 80s, when popular Shop, Engineering and Home Economics classes were eliminated. 'Dirty Jobs' host Mike Rowe says that the death of shop class is why there is $1.6T in student debt.

Guide to Shop and Engineering for Secondary School Students. Volume I of a new, highly-affordable curriculum combining classical lessons in workshop skills and mechanical engineering with modern methods and tools, "From Screwdrivers to 3D Printers". Created with the modest facilities and budgets of Christian schools and home schools in mind. Click here for a table of contents.  Click here for a book review from AFA Journal.

God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, is the ultimate engineer and we are created in His image. (Gen. 1:27)   In ancient times, it was the responsibility of parents to teach their children skills that would allow them to thrive when they reached adulthood. Jesus Christ was trained in carpentry. The Apostle Paul learned the trade of tent-making. (Prov. 31:10-31, Eph. 6:1-4, Thess. 4:9-12, Titus 2:1-8, Timothy 3:14-17)

The curriculum was developed originally for the Luddy Institute of Technology (LIT), popular elective classes offered by the Thales Academies, a network of low-cost, world-class, independent K-12 schools.  CONTACT US FOR PURCHASE INFORMATION.

• Full-color, 219-page printed guidebook with 17 chapters including numerous biographies of famous American inventors.
• Exercises for each chapter.
• 20+ fun & challenging projects.
• Lecture Notes for teachers with an integrated Biblical Worldview. (PDFs on CD)
• Separate manual of 100 shop projects (PDFs on CD)

• Lecture Notes for Preface
• Lecture Notes for Chapter 6, Units and Measurements
• Lecture Notes for Chapter 11, Multi/View Drawings
• Lecture Notes for Chapter 14, CAD / Introduction to Computer Aided Design
• Summary of Lecture Notes
• Summary of Projects Manual

We are blessed by the involvement, advice and inspiration of leading thinkers on the topic of Christian education:

• RenewaNation
• iLumenEd Academy
• Exodus Mandate
• Christian Education Initiative
• Christian Engineering Society
• Worldview Matters
• Bob Jones Univ. Engineering
• Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE)
• American Family Association
• Thru the Bible (TTB)