The newest teaching tool that we have added to the Campus Safety department is our 1998 golf car. The golf car is used to teach drug and alcohol awareness to our students as well as students from the surrounding community schools and local churches.

The program we use is called Fatal Vision. The Fatal Vision concept was invented and developed by Mike Aguilar, President of Innocorp LTd. in Verona, Wisconsin. This concept includes the Fatal Vision goggles which are designed to simulate the influence of drugs and alcohol. These goggles  from Innocorp are the best teaching tool I have ever used in my 31 year career to reach the youth of our area. The goggles along with the many other available products from Innocorp have made Tech's Fatal Vision program a hit in the Kanawha Valley.

Fatal Vision goggles are worn by a student who tries to perform tasks such as walking a straight line or go through a field sobriety test. The student gets to experience the impairing effects that drugs and alcohol create first hand without being under the influence.

At Tech we have gone one better. Chief Ron Mink, with the help of the Tech Foundation office, started a fund raising campaign that added a golf car to assist in teaching our young people the ills of using drugs and alcohol. We put the student behind the wheel and let them drive the golf car to experience the a real effects of driving under the influence of alcohol. It has been real eye opener for the student. We've set up an obstacle course that students must negotiate while wearing the Fatal Vision goggles, they have failed every time.

This is an outstanding program for students from 7th grade and up. If we can bring a program to your school or youth group please call Chief Ronald Mink at 442-3313.

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