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Hands-On

Hands-On

Written by: Tri-County Technical Center
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Welcome to Hands-On, the podcast of Tri-County Technical Center in Dexter, Maine. Hands-On aims to interview current and former students, instructors, local business owners, and others who can help represent the goals of Tri-County Technical Center and Career and Technical Education.© 2024 Tri-County Technical Center. All rights reserved.
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  • HVAC and Lincoln Tech
    Feb 2 2026

    New Hands-On host Brandon Harper welcomes you to Season 4! Brandon starts with interviewing our new HVAC instructor Darin Spack and two of his students. Then Brandon talks with Mark Cater of Lincoln Tech (www.lincolntech.edu), who visited TCTC recently to talk with students.

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    9 mins
  • Multimedia Production - Season 3 Episode 5
    Mar 25 2025

    Welcome back to Hands-On.

    In this episode, host Kaleb Ranquist has a chat with Trevor Deschaine, a first-year student of the Multimedia Production program about the curriculum, his progression towards getting a drone license, and his post-secondary plans.

    Afterward, a short intermission where Kaleb talks to Chase Farnsworth of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business program about his experience and perseverance through the Entrepreneurship competition at SkillsUSA, winning a silver medal, along with winning CTE Student of the Year at TCTC!

    Finally, Kaleb talks with Austin Harris, a second-year student of the Multimedia Production program, about how being a second year student differs from being a first year, along with his projects including directing the documentary, Rural Dreams!

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    18 mins
  • Cybersecurity - Season 3 Episode 4
    Mar 10 2025

    Welcome back to Hands-On.

    In this episode, host Kaleb Ranquist interviews the new instructor of the Cybersecurity program (formally the Computer Information and System Security program), Dan Smith about the work they do with computers, servers, and talk of experimental AI.

    Afterward, Kaleb interviews Matthew Hall, a student of Cybersecurity, about his inspiration to take the class, activities he and other students work on, and his future endeavors in the field of computers.

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    20 mins
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