We had wood shop in Middle school. The teacher was also the history teacher. our big project for the semester was ... skim boards. Yep. A flat piece of plywood in the shape of a mint leaf. that's it. Give me an "A" please, kind sir. HS was more complex. No wood shop, but we had what we called AG, or Ag = Agricultural Applications Learning. First half of the class was welding, cutting with a torch, and Gardening type stuff. The teacher had a crush on my GF, so he kinda made it hard for me. The second half of the year was the "cool" stuff, for me anyways. Different teacher and actually a cool dude. Our school had just received the big Ink Jet plotter/Printer that could print out all sorts of blueprints and CAD designs. Also had a CAD program that taught us CAD design where we designed a house, then designed a neighbor hood with each of our houses in it. Then we had a motorized "Lego Set". First project was to race a lego car in a 2 foot section of the room. After that, we had to create the slowest car. It was a lesson in gearing and to improve our building skills. THAT was the class I liked most, in all of my years in school. If I could retake that class, knowing what I now know, I would have a blast.