Tri Star Career Compact hosted the District 5 Agricultural Power Diagnostics competition on Friday, February 2nd. Twenty-three two-person teams competed in the career development event which is designed to evaluate students’ knowledge in recognizing and repairing malfunctions in agricultural and industrial power equipment. Winners of the competition will move on to the state competition where they have a chance to earn a college scholarship to the University of Northwestern Ohio.
The event, formerly known as Tractor Trouble Shooting, consists of two parts, an online test over tractor maintenance and repair given prior to the second part, the hands-on event. For the hands-on portion, five stations were set-up with various pieces of agricultural equipment that have been intentionally bugged. Each team has one minute to assess a “work order” detailing the problems at each station, and 20 minutes to diagnose and fix the two problems on the piece of equipment at that station. Points are awarded for being able to describe the problems to the judges and then making the necessary fixes. Teams receive points based on how much time they have left and the questions they ask. Scores from both the online test and hands-on portion are calculated together to determine contest placing.
Five local companies provided the equipment and judged the competition. Thanks to Kenn Feld, K & L Tractors, Affolders, and CAT for their help and support.
Thanks also to Tri Star’s Ag. Instructors, Ken Platfoot and Mike Seibert for their hard work and effort in organizing the day-long competition.
Teams and their place are as follows:
TEAM |
TOTAL SCORE |
PLACE |
MIAMI EAST |
276 |
1 |
UPPER VALLEY Career Center |
253 |
2 |
TRI STAR Career Compact |
246 |
3 |
FRANKLIN MONROE |
235 |
4 |
MIAMI VALLEY CTC* |
233 |
5 |
MINSTER |
231 |
6 |
COLDWATER |
218 |
7 |
ANSONIA |
212 |
8 |
GREENVILLE |
211 |
9 |
NATIONAL TRAIL MVCTC* |
207 |
10 |
MISSISSINAWA VALLEY |
204 |
11 |
ST. HENRY |
201 |
12 |
TWIN VALLEY SOUTH MVCTC* |
197 |
13 |
PREBLE SHAWNEE |
191 |
14 |
ARCANUM MVCTC* |
190 |
15 |
VERSAILLES |
189 |
16 |
FAIRLAWN |
184 |
17 |
SIDNEY |
171 |
18 |
NEW KNOXVILLE |
166 |
19 |
CELINA |
159 |
20 |
FORT LARAMIE UVCTC ** |
141 |
21 |
NEW BREMEN |
140 |
22 |
FORT RECOVERY |
135 |
23 |
* Miami Valley Career Technology Center |
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** Upper Valley Career Technology Center |