META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · HVAC & REFRIGERATION · THE LAB'S YEAR · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 1 CREDIT · EPA-608
HVAC & Refrigeration · the year
The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608) · in The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608)
Lockout · recovery · ventilation · refrigerant handling — the lane ends in EPA-608
This year is laid from the lab’s own calendar — every course inside the lab end to end, then its floors — not written quarter by quarter. The weeks are the lab’s; the quarter windows are the catalog’s.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
TECHNOLOGY & TRADESMATHSCIENCEART & DESIGNHISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & HUMANITIESBUSINESS & ENTERPRISEREADING & WRITING
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
LEADS TO · THE CERTIFICATION
EPA Section 608 Technician Certification VIRTUAL OR IN PERSON · issued by U.S. EPA, through an EPA-approved certifying organization. A proctored exam — in person at a certifying organization, or online-proctored where the organization offers it. Federal law: refrigerant cannot be handled without it.
EVERY CERTIFICATION →WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Lockout/tagout + recover refrigerant safely
- Handle refrigerant to code
- Test toward EPA-608
AT A GLANCE · 36 WEEKS
Q1 The Card · OSHA, the modules → The floor — An EPA-608 attempt
Q2 The floor — A service checklist
Q3 The floor — An EPA-608 attempt
Q4 The floor — A service checklist
THE COURSES INSIDE THIS LAB · 1
THE ROOMS · 0 · BEHIND LOGIN
Semester 1
WEEKS 1–18 · QUARTERS 1 AND 2Quarter 1 · The Card · OSHA, the modules → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1Intro to OSHA — Your RightsTHE CARD · OSHA, THE MODULES
Every OSHA class starts here, by law. And for you, this is the most important hour on campus: you have rights on a jobsite that nobody may have told you about.
WK 2Falls — the #1 Killer
Falls kill more construction workers than anything else — and almost every one was preventable with gear that was sitting right there.
WK 3Struck-By
Vehicles, falling objects, flying debris, swinging loads — struck-by is death coming at you sideways, and it moves faster than you can.
WK 4Caught-In / Between
Trenches that collapse, machines that grab, equipment that pins — caught-in is the hazard that gives you no second chance.
WK 5Electrocution
Electricity gives no warning and no second try. Overhead lines, damaged cords, and un-locked-out circuits are the ways it reaches you.
WK 6–9LockoutTHE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
An EPA-608 attempt
The question. Can you lockout/tagout + recover refrigerant safely?
The make. An EPA-608 attempt
The evidence. Handed in through The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608)’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 2 · The floor
WEEKS 10–18 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 10–12Lockout (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 13–18Recovery
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A service checklist
The question. Can you handle refrigerant to code?
The make. A service checklist
The evidence. Handed in through The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608)’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Semester 2
WEEKS 19–36 · QUARTERS 3 AND 4Quarter 3 · The floor
WEEKS 19–27THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 19Recovery (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 20–26Ventilation
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
WK 27Refrigerant handling — the lane ends in EPA-608
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
An EPA-608 attempt
The question. Can you test toward EPA-608?
The make. An EPA-608 attempt
The evidence. Handed in through The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608)’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
Quarter 4 · The floor
WEEKS 28–36THE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 28–36Refrigerant handling — the lane ends in EPA-608 (continued)THE FLOOR
The floor — the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
A service checklist
The question. Can you lockout/tagout + recover refrigerant safely?
The make. A service checklist
The evidence. Handed in through The Card · HVAC & Refrigeration (EPA-608)’s own surface and kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
One pass includes HVAC & Refrigeration · the year and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.