Area Students Attend Trades Day

At Trades Day on March 2, Bryce Elliot sits in a chair similar to that found on a Vermeer Directional Drill. The virtual simulator recreates what a technician might find on a job site, and Elliot's goal was to situate a water line between two obstacles. "We were given certain degrees of angle changes to properly put a water line in without hitting the obstacles that were above and below," Elliot explained. Later that afternoon, he and Cooper Standiford were able to operate the actual Vermeer Directional drill outside where the controls were the same but the operator could actually break something if he misjudged.