Andrew’s Speech – February 2026 Workshop Completion Ceremony
“”Hi, I’m Andrew. There’s not a lot other than just starting to pick and poke at, you know, three people in here. We have, it’s probably the smallest class we’ve had since we started, which was kind of a double-edged sword. It’s tough for us because we have so much time and we’re like, what else do we make them do now? Usually when you have 10 students, it’s a little harder to get them all in certain places. It extends time.
I think this smaller group that we had was actually fantastic. You guys had to do a lot more than any other class has been able to do. We’ve never had a class put in a whole mini-split system out there, a two-head condenser. You worked on things that other classes just didn’t get to touch.
We had a couple hiccups, a little frustration here and there. One student probably never wanted to see me again, but decided that was not an option and came back, which I applaud him for that. Just how well everybody took it and ran out there was impressive. We had some issues, as normal, but this was probably one of the easiest classes to teach because you grasped things quite quickly.
Hats off to all of you for getting a job so quickly. That’s not a normal thing. People don’t always leave here with a job before we’ve even had a sandwich. And by the way, the sandwiches are good—they’re from Publix.
Again, it was just a nice class to sit down with and have this amount of time where we could just ask, ‘What more do you want? What more can we do? What more can I force you to do that you don’t want to do?’
But I think it helped you guys immensely. Congratulations. You all did really, really, really good work. Thank you.”