Three Cape students named ‘Do The Right Thing’ winners

Three students were honored as “Do The Right Thing” award recipients this week for their good deeds. Command staff with the Cape Coral Police Department’s Community Services Bureau visited the students’ schools to present them with their awards.

Sisters Aliyah and Makila Perez collected over 50 unwrapped toys and donated them to the Toys for Tots toy drive. Both attend Trafalgar Elementary School, Aliyah in first grade and Makila in fourth grade.

Jackson Lemmerman is an eighth grader at Trafalgar Middle School. He located a cell phone in the middle of the road, retrieved it, then tracked down the rightful owner of the phone and returned it.

Please join us in congratulating these three fine students who chose to “Do The Right Thing.” For more on the program, visit www.capecops.com/do-the-right-thing.

U.S. Navy donates helicopter engines to Fort Myers Technical College

Students in Fort Myers Technical College Turbine Generator Maintenance, Inspection and Repair program are getting hands on experience thanks to the U.S. Navy,  which recently donated two H-60 helicopter engines to Fort Myers Tech.

“Having these engines really helps illustrate (on a smaller scale) what a powerplant does, which solidifies the education given here, and it gives us the boost we need to send this program further,” said FMTC Turbine Instruction Todd Regan. 

The T700 military turboshafts have earned a reputation for exceptional performance in combat and under the worst environmental conditions. Designed to be rugged, reliable and easily maintainable, current T700 models apply advanced technology to an experience base of 50 million hours of operation.

The -701C powers the Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk and the Boeing AH-64 Apaches. Sikorsky H-60 Seahawk naval and search and rescue variants are designed specifically for the marine environment.

These engines provide practical experience the students need in the workforce. It will show the different stages of compression from low to high. Students will learn where fuel and air is atomized and mixed to provide combustion when an ignitor is introduced. Finally, they’ll be able to see how the turbine performs, what it powers, and the subsystems along with it.

“Partnerships occur at all levels, and we are extremely excited to have received this generous donation from the US Navy,” says Fort Myers Technical College Director John Roszell.  “Equipment like this is hard to come by and will make an immediate and sustained impact on our TGM program.”

Fort Myers Technical College is at 3800 Michigan Ave., Fort Myers. Call 239-334-4544.