CAPA Night!

Last night all, well most anyways, the seniors at Tech attended the top secret event: CAPA night. Due to the sensitive nature of this topic I will leave out key details and request ALL underclassmen to exercise good integrity and self control by not reading this blog and turning away. Thank you.



Moving on!

Throughout the week the senior class has been put through and engineering class to learn about root cause analysis meaning what was the actual problem to a disaster and CAPA (Corrective And Preventative Actions) where we learned about how to create a method to help prevent and correct the problem in the future. We received worksheets from Dr. Immel to help us prepare to write an executive summary where we would state the problem, factors, details, root cause, and possible solutions to our "Boss" who would only give us one night to do the paper. Later Mrs. Immel, Dr. Immel's wife, who is the president of a company called Immel Resources (immelresources.com) gave us a presentation and exercise to prepare us for the upcoming event.

At 6:00 last night the event began. During CAPA night the class sat in a dark room and we listened and watched the disaster that will remain unnamed. We then had to break up into pre-assigned groups where we went through material and media trying to find the root cause of the problem. about a hour later we reconvened to have a meeting to discuss our finding/reenact events. We later had to hold a press conference to a group of "reporters" AKA a group of parents and teachers who obnoxiously bombarded us with questions making the event seem very life-like. At 10:00pm the event was over and we were told that our executive summaries were due at 1:00pm the next day. My two friends and I went home and had a sleep over so we could all help each other write our papers. Around 12:30 I finished my paper while my friends continued to work. One of us was online taking to people via AIM and most of the class was on working on papers and helping others. By the time we were all finished it was 3am! Then we finally got some sleep.

Now that all the papers are turned in or about to be turned in the weary and fatigue seniors are ready to enjoy the Holiday (I'm being PC) break.