Students at St. Joseph Catholic School react to the arcs and sparks on the live home and farm model.
Stearns Electric Association employees visited fourth-graders from St. Joseph Catholic School to share messages of electrical safety and information on the energy industry. Stearns Electric’s live, energized home and farm model serves as the highpoint of each presentation. Used as a tool to show students what can happen when they get too close to electrical equipment, students were fascinated with the electrical sparks and arc flashes demonstrated on the model. The most important piece of safety information students walk away from the presentation with is the knowledge of how to react in a vehicle accident involving any electrical equipment. Following each demonstration, one lucky student was selected to dress up as a line worker. Donning a hard hat, rubber gloves, pole climbers, safety glasses and a utility belt, these students got to experience the real-life equipment line workers use daily.
