Hello my name is Greg Stewart, and I have been attending Bucks County Technical High School for three years now. I am currently 17 years old and in the junior class. Also I'm in Civil Engineering Technology with Mr. Hale. I came to Bucks County Technical High School for many of reasons. The most important reason was because I wanted to learn a career and yet still get a normal education and still be in high school. Also I came here to get out of going to Neshaminy High School because I didn't really favor what they had as academic major choices. During the exploratory program in ninth grade, I went through at the time 26 technical programs. After like the first couple of shops, I really enjoyed welding and baking. But when it was time to choose my shop towards the end of the exploratory program I had Civil Engineering as my first choice, Collision Repair as my second and Computer Information as my final choice. The reason I chose Civil was because I am very good at math skills and I am somewhat creative in designing things. Also I liked the idea of how much money I can earn in the engineering profession.
             So far for my high school career, I have learned a lot of information from Mr. Hale and from what is around in the civil engineering shop. I have learned what goes into owning real estate and what problems might occur with zoning restrictions which are set up by the township so that houses are not too big or small and that houses are not located in the midst of industrial or commercial areas. I have learned about soil logs and different types of soil. I have also learned to use some of the equipment that we use in our shop, like the Pentax Transit, Level Instrument, prism poles, and the HP 48 computer calculator and data collection process. In the classroom I learned to use our software such as AutoCAD, the Hp 750 plotter and the Xerox industrial copier.
             The reason I'm choosing to do this project is because I ...