This year’s Landscape Ontario Congress 2007 trade show marked the unveiling of our new Mobile Training Center. The climate controlled 450 ft² training center boasts a classroom with seating for eight students, complete with a DLP projector and instructor whiteboards. The laboratory testing area houses a variety of irrigation and landscape lighting equipment including wiring troubleshooting panels, manual and automatic valves, controllers, transformers and an assortment of input sensors.

The rear of the training center contains the 100 ft² wet room. In it, students can actually practice setting, replacing and troubleshooting a variety of irrigation applicators in action – sprays, rotors, drip-line and micro-sprays. This venue will give DHS service technicians and other students the hands-on practical application training and exposure that is vital to learning irrigation theory that text books alone cannot provide.

Low Student to Teacher Ratio!

One of the many features of the Mobile Training Center is the unique front classroom setting. Limiting the comfortable seating to eight allows for true teacher to student interaction. Our classroom intimacy allows for the student to feel involved in the theoretical portion of the teaching, while the instructor can monitor student involvement and activity by involving the students in the lecture portion of the learning.

Testing Troubleshooting Skills!

Whether it’s learning how to properly program an older model controller, or working with a newly released ET Weather Station, students can test their skills at controller programming, valve operation and wiring abilities in the laboratory section. A series of troubleshooting skills can be tested using the complete irrigation systems in place. The Mobile Training Center also offers a wide selection of landscape lights and transformers for service technicians to improve their skills.