{"id":20420,"date":"2020-12-17T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20420"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:09:44","slug":"camosun-automotive-students-get-donation-of-tools-from-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/12\/17\/camosun-automotive-students-get-donation-of-tools-from-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun automotive students get donation of tools from foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun College has received additional tool sets for their automotive students thanks to a recent donation from a Maple Ridge-based foundation. The Ed Coates Memorial Foundation\u2014a foundation formed after Lordco Auto Parts co-founder\/president\/CEO Ed Coates, who was passionate about sustainability and the automotive industry, passed away in 2014\u2014recently donated 12 tool kits to the college. Before the COVID-19 crisis hit, says Camosun automotive instructor Patrick Jones, it was normal for students to share tools. Prior to the donation, they needed to spend time cleaning each tool before it could be passed on to someone else. The donation works out to one tool kit per student, which Jones says increases quality of education for everyone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes what we\u2019re doing on a day-to-day basis easier,\u201d says Jones. \u201cThat\u2019s not the be all and end all, but it\u2019s helping us improve the education that we provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the donation, there were eight tool kits for 16 students in apprentice classes. Before the pandemic, sanitizing wasn\u2019t necessarily a concern, but some of the tools weren\u2019t as good as they could have been in some of the courses offered in Women In Trades Training and high-school equivalent courses in particular, says Jones.<\/p>\n

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Camosun students with their new tools (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t had proper tools for those students; whenever we\u2019ve run those programs, it\u2019s been kind of using old tool kits for those students,\u201d he says. \u201cThe tools just aren\u2019t up to snuff for a proper learning experience, so by having these extra kits, that will help us out with those programs, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Especially during COVID-19, where so much time has to be given to proper sanitization, the donation will help students, says Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does give peace of mind to the students that are actually working, and it reduces time to get stuff done, because they\u2019ve got the equipment close at hand,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re not waiting for somebody else to be finished with it and then clean it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new kits consist of tools like ratchets, wrenches, screwdriver sets, impact guns, impact sockets, and digital multimeters. The 12 kits total roughly $25,000, says Jones.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe choice of everything [in the tool kits] was ours,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd we weren\u2019t told about a dollar amount or anything. Basically, we were just asked, \u2018Well, what would you need?\u2019 So we put together a list of needs, and it was like, \u2018Okay, well, that\u2019s perfect; that\u2019s what a set is; and how many sets do you want?\u2019 It was pretty nice to work out that way. It wasn\u2019t like, ‘Okay, here\u2019s just a bunch of tools\u2019; it was what we were after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teaching has changed quite a bit since the start of the pandemic, says Jones. Students are on reduced shop hours, with theory being delivered online.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the shop on Tuesdays and Thursdays,\u201d he says. \u201cHow our apprentice classes typically worked was we\u2019re in the classroom for the mornings and in the shop for the afternoons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mechanics have to take the same amount of care around COVID safety as any other business in the province, says Jones, adding that automotive technicians play an essential role in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom an essential service standpoint, if there wasn\u2019t mechanics, the streets would be littered with cars that weren\u2019t working,\u201d says Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun College has received additional tool sets for their automotive students thanks to a recent donation from a Maple Ridge-based foundation. The Ed Coates Memorial Foundation\u2014a foundation formed after Lordco Auto Parts co-founder\/president\/CEO Ed Coates, who was passionate about sustainability and the automotive industry, passed away in 2014\u2014recently donated 12 tool kits to the college. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20422,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions\/20422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}