{"id":5513,"date":"2015-10-29T22:52:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2015-10-30T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:09:15","slug":"automotive-department-attends-annual-fall-cat-conference-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/automotive-department-attends-annual-fall-cat-conference-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Department Attends Annual Fall CAT Conference in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5516 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"Deer Park Museum\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Deer-Park-Museum-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Automotive Department faculty and staff including Tom Broxholm, Dan Ming, Ruben Parra, Filipp Gleyzer and Nancy Lam, flew down bright and early on Friday morning to attend the fall California Automotive Teachers (CAT) Conference held at Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA, on October 16 -17, 2015.\u00a0 First day activities included a guided tour to the Antique Gas &amp; Steam Engine Museum located at Vista, CA.\u00a0 This museum sits on 55 acres of farm ground, exhibiting\u00a0 agricultural, construction, early industrial and farm equipment from 1849 through the 1960\u2019s, the majority of which are still in operating conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5514 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall.jpg\" alt=\"teachers at CAT conference\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CAT-2015-Fall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/>Next stop was lunch at Deer Park Winery &amp; Car Museum, located at Escondido, CA.\u00a0 After lunch we were allowed to wander the grounds and explore on our own all the ancient cars on display.\u00a0 The museum has cars from the 1800s all the way through to the 1970s, models ranged from Studebakers, Packards, Pierce Arrow, Crosley and many others.\u00a0 Besides car exhibits, the museum also has household appliances from the 1900s like radios, televisions, washing machines, etc.\u00a0 Most surprising of all the exhibits were the Barbie Doll Collection. The museum is definitely worth a revisit.\u00a0 The day ended with a meet and greet and dinner at Mira Costa\u2019s cafeteria.<\/p>\n<p>Mira Costa College sits on top of a hill and is beautiful and serene; the automotive department threw open their doors and gates and offered a variety of classes throughout the day for the attending teachers to receive their recertification on the subject(s) of their choice.\u00a0 Our retiree, Rick Escalambre, taught two classes \u2013 Does Funding Make a Program and ASIAN EVAP Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The CAT Conference is where all the automotive teachers gather and reconnect as well as learn and exchange updated industry information.\u00a0 Spring\u2019s CAT Conference will be in Northern California\u2019s Modesto College.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Nancy Lam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive Department faculty and staff including Tom Broxholm, Dan Ming, Ruben Parra, Filipp Gleyzer and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}