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=This letter is a token of my gratitude to express my utmost thanks to those who sacrificed their own time to steer me and my fellow piers into the right direction of hopefully later shaping our lives and finding the right job. And with that I thank you!= = = = = =I never knew the other side of The Culinary Arts. Our instructor was very well organized on explaining every question we had with sharp, accurate response. First he explained the enjoyment of the job. He explained how you get a pretty well rounded experience. You get to visit with people and meet new people. The best part though is trying to make the person's experience enjoyable so they keep coming back. Hours are flexible sometimes (until someone wants breakfast at 2:00 in the morning). The most hands-on experience we had in the session was getting to make our very own fruit kabob (with latex gloves of course).= = = =The Robotics session I would have to say was the best of them all. Our group was headed by a son and (who I assume to be) his father. We started out with the enjoyment of the job. The older man switched on the T.V. to show us a video of a robot competition held in Dallas. He explained the different mechanisms and had his son repeat them on the robot. There was 1.a throwing mechanism 2. driving mechanism 3.side to side mechanism 4. picking up mechanism. When the video was over the father showed us a competiton where they went against a team from New Zealand. After I watched a traditional tribal dance that the New Zealanders peformed I was called to drive the robot. My partner (Cole Gallo) and I first started driving it to pick up a football. That was easy enough so we started throwing the football. Well, I guess you could say we hogged the robot. (But it was fun).= = = =I never would of thought that Agriculture would have so many jobs! I only thought it was involved owning a farm or raising livestock. Our group had very little people in it but both instructors made it worth while to be there. In this session he showed us a slide show of all the different job clusters of Agriculture. There were many kinds of jobs such as food producing, conservationist, and even x-ray technicians! When he was done showing us the slide show he handed out different sheets that had every letter of the alphabet on it. The instructions were plain and simple, all you had to do was think of as many jobs as possible in agriculture to fit onto every letter. It was hard, and I only came up with 5, but they awarded us with suckers and free pencils at the end of the session.= = = =Again, thanks for being there when we needed you most!=