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HVACTA – January/February Boasting a 100% Gainful HVAC Employment
The greatest news being all participants completing the January/March six-week HVAC workshop are HVAC employed! When it comes to getting you along the HVAC journey, I can’t think of a better and more efficient method than HVAC Technical Academy.
A huge thank you to each participant, their guests, family, CareerSource of Central Florida, TruTech Tools, Johnstone Supply, The ESCO Group, Kalos Service, Inc., Dirk and the folks from Visual 3d, and Carrier Enterprise for their support and belief in our mission to bring all, no matter their background and circumstance, and opportunity to gain personal and professional success!
HVACTA: Mini Split Swap
Getting you in the know, a mini split system is a ductless heating and cooling solution composed of an outdoor compressor unit and one or more indoor air handlers
Break Down to Braze to Evaporator Coil Clean to …
Interested in entering the HVAC Industry? HVAC Technical Academy can get you there in six weeks, give me a call to chat. This does come with a warning… be prepared to work every day, our learn by doing approach is the real thing.
Empowering the Justice-Involved
HVACTA – January/February Boasting a 100% Gainful HVAC Employment
The greatest news being all participants completing the January/March six-week HVAC workshop are HVAC employed! When it comes to getting you along the HVAC journey, I can’t think of a better and more efficient method than HVAC Technical Academy.
A huge thank you to each participant, their guests, family, CareerSource of Central Florida, TruTech Tools, Johnstone Supply, The ESCO Group, Kalos Service, Inc., Dirk and the folks from Visual 3d, and Carrier Enterprise for their support and belief in our mission to bring all, no matter their background and circumstance, and opportunity to gain personal and professional success!
HVACTA: Mini Split Swap Concludes
Can you say, “up and running?” I certainly hope so as the group completed the installation (from scratch) a double headed mini split. We are talking, doing it all!
HVACTA: Mini Split Swap
Getting you in the know, a mini split system is a ductless heating and cooling solution composed of an outdoor compressor unit and one or more indoor air handlers
Career
HVAC Heat Pump: What’s it All About?
Philip Nguyen joins 2nd Chance University
“I am excited to work with 2nd Chance University for giving me the opportunity to help our military veterans as well as our justice involved persons achieve gainful employment.”
Take charge of your career in six weeks!
Bringing Life Changing Programs
Career Performance Excellence
Employment, Experience, Education
Delivering Career Diligence
Career Snapshot: Framing Shadowman
Career Breakout: Holiday Networking
Incarceration
OK, I was Wrong
Held at the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Sanford, the folks attending (and operating) were not what I had expected or were accustomed to. Professional, courteous, respectful, and genuinely interested are just a few words summarizing the experience.
Sleep and Escape
As Stick mentions, everyone wears white as well as time, but some are inmates and some are convicts. If you were to go prison, do you picture yourself as an inmate or as a convict (why one and not the other)?
Robert and Accepting Defeat
I’m Robert. I work in construction, or at least I did until a few months ago. Boss fired me because the company wasn’t doing well. I know they are getting plenty of business so I’m pretty upset about not working; probably has to do with my arrest.
Inmate
2nd Chance University: We…
1+1 Equals…..Well, That Depends
Parole
Mixed Messages
President Trump
President Trump Signs First Step Act into Law,
Mixed Messages
Youth Empowerment
HVAC Heat Pump: What’s it All About?
HVAC Technical Academy, a quick rest between projects
Nicholas taking a quick break between projects. Keeping the fast pace of the HVAC Service Technician Industry, we keep things moving… that’s one reason why HVAC Technical Academy graduates are sought after by HVAC Companies throughout Central Florida
2nd Chance University Open House
Recidivism
HVAC Classes in 3 Weeks
Sanity and Steel Doors
In prison, sanity is balanced by lost years and steel doors. Stick takes our workshop audiences on a quick mental venture as he compares freedom to lines captivity.
Reentry
HVACTA: New System Installation – Getting Close
Allowing challenges, hands-on learning, and frustration to ride shotgun, the group is progressing nicely. All three systems are scheduled to be up and operating before end of Tuesday… and you know what that means? You guessed it, plenum, distribution boxes, flex, and registers will be next in line… how exciting this is becoming!
HVACTA: New System Installation Day 2
Second day is another day of progress through frustration, challenge, and opportunity. Our philosophy being without struggle, there is no growth. Throughout the day, many became frustrated but ALL progressed… and that is what we are all about.
HVACTA: Supply Plenum
For those who experienced discoloration (cannot say the “m” word here) atop your air handler, improper plenum construction and implementation is most likely the cause. One of the many hands-on tasks at HVAC Technical Academy is constructing supply plenum.
Release
2CU and HVAC Technical Academy
Steven’s Doubled CHE Quotient
2nd Chance
2025: Success Takes ACTION
RTU Breakdown
Participants never know what our “learn by doing” HVAC Workshops will be from day to day. Interactive with real-world application, today was about a rooftop unit… and you missed out!
Today at HVAC Technical Academy: Package Unit PM
Getting a solid understanding on package units is part of the territory for HVAC technicians. Today our students performed a complete pm…