Mechanical Mini-Series 1: Safety & Tool Identification

🔧 Your Teen’s First Step Toward Mechanical Confidence

📍 Location: Kenyon Racing Garage – Morriston, FL

📅 Duration: 4 hands-on sessions

📜 Includes: All tools, safety gear demos, certification, and a full garage experience

💬 Description

Tired of watching your teen scroll endlessly? Want to get them out of the house and teach them something useful? This hands-on, high-energy mini-series drops them straight into the world of wrenches, torque, and mechanical problem-solving — no tech, no fluff, just real tools and real skills in a real garage.

Whether your teen dreams of racing or just needs to know how to use a socket wrench without Googling it, this is the perfect starting point. Taught in small groups with experienced mentors, each session builds foundational confidence and introduces life-long skills they’ll actually use.

🧠 What They’ll Learn

• Identify 25+ real tools (socket sets, torque wrenches, pliers, multimeters, and more)
• Understand the difference between SAE and metric
• Use torque wrenches, Allen keys, and other shop tools with proper form
• Learn power tool basics and shop air systems
• Complete beginner maintenance tasks (spark plugs, oil change simulation)
• Pass a hands-on safety and tool challenge to earn Level 1 & Level 2 Certificates

🛠️ Session Breakdown

🔧 Session 1 – Tool ID, Safety, & Shop Tour

🔍 Know Your Tools. Own Your Space.

This kickoff session lays the foundation for mechanical confidence through real-world tool training and shop safety protocols.

🔩 Skills Covered:

• Identify 25+ essential tools
• Understand SAE vs. metric tools
• Power tool and compressor safety demo
• Explore workshop layout: lighting, ventilation, fire safety
• Learn PPE: gloves, goggles, ear protection, fire-retardant gear
• Spot shop hazards: pinch points, spill risks, chemical exposure

🧪 Activities:

• Tool ID Challenge
• Scavenger Hunt: Shop Safety Walkthrough
• Spot the Hazard Simulation

🛠️ Session 2 – Tool Handling Techniques & Torque Basics

🔧 Strength Meets Strategy: How to Use Tools Like a Pro

Now that you’ve met the tools — learn how to use them with precision.

👨‍🔧 What They’ll Learn:

• Aligning and gripping tools correctly
• How to tighten without stripping / loosen without rounding
• Intro to torque specs, bolt grades, and threads
• Proper use of torque wrenches, pliers, and Allen keys

🧪 Practice:

• Scrap Bolt Loosening Exercises
• Thread Matching Challenge
• Torque Wrench Accuracy Station
• Fastener ID Table

🧰 Session 3 – Tool Mastery & Practice Circuit

🛠 Get Confident With Your Tools – One Challenge at a Time

Time to put those skills into action — this is where teens start wrenching like they mean it.

⚙️ Activities:

• Practice spark plug installs (including gapping)
• Simulated oil changes and bolt torquing
• Socket alignment drills with scrap assemblies
• Fastener threading, sequence challenges

🎯 Practice Circuits:

• Tool Confidence Relay
• Mystery Toolbox Game
• Mentor Match Challenge
• Safe Setup Zone: Create your own safe work area

✅ Session 4 – Safety Test & Skill Challenge

🏁 Certification Starts Here

Your teen will now complete a hands-on test to earn their Level 2 Certification in Safety & Tool Handling.

What’s Included:

• Review of all safety concepts
• Test: 5+ tool-based tasks correctly performed
• Team project: build a basic mock-up using hand tools
• Final Q&A and personalized goal-setting
• Awarded: Safety & Tool Handling Certificate (Level 1)

💵 What It Costs

• $129 — Safety Certificate Only (Testing Waiver Track)
• For experienced students who can prove tool mastery.
• Includes the Safety Certificate session only
• Must pass a knowledge + skills assessment covering tool ID, safe handling, and practical shop use. If you do not pass, you can apply your $129 toward the full 4-session Safety + Tool Mastery program by paying the difference.

• $449 — Full 4-Session Program: Safety + Tool Mastery
• The standard and required track for all new students.
• Session 1: Mandatory Safety Certificate
• Sessions 2–4: Tool identification, safe handling, and applied practice
• Max 6 students per group
• Earns the Level 2 Certificate: Safety + Tool Mastery

⚠️ Important

• All students must complete Safety.
• The $129 waiver track is not a shortcut — it’s a challenge test for advanced learners.
• If a student doesn’t pass, they won’t lose their spot — they can upgrade to the full program.

🔥 Hands-On. No Fluff.

• 6+ hours in the garage
• Real tools, real skills
• Certs that unlock motorcycles & cars
• Max 6 students — everyone gets time on the wrenches

🏁 Why Kenyon Racing?

Because camps are for crafts. This is a garage.

Respect is the rule. Safety is the ticket. Progression is the game.

👉 For less than a sports season, your teen gets skills they’ll use forever — and a fast track into motorsports.

🎒 What to Bring

• Closed-toe shoes (required)
• Refillable water bottle
• Optional notebook (cheat sheets provided)
• Positive attitude & willingness to try

🧪 Knowledge & Skills Assessment (Waiver Track)

To qualify for the Safety Certificate Only ($129 option), students must successfully demonstrate ALL of the following during the January 8 or 13 session:

🔧 Tool Identification (Verbal/Practical)

Students must name and correctly identify the function of at least 20 common shop tools, including:

• Socket set & ratchet
• Combination wrenches
• Screwdrivers (flathead, Phillips, Torx)
• Adjustable wrench
• Torque wrench
• Allen/hex keys
• Pliers (needle-nose, channel lock, slip-joint)
• Vice grips
• Mallet vs. ball-peen hammer
• Wire brush & file
• Impact driver vs. drill (corded/cordless)
• Jack & jack stands
• Oil filter wrench
• Funnel & catch pan
• Safety equipment (goggles, gloves, fire extinguisher)

🛡️ Safety & Respect Check

• Demonstrate proper PPE use (goggles, gloves, closed-toe shoes)
• Show safe lifting technique with jack & stands
• Follow shop traffic rules (walkways, tool placement, cleanup)
• Answer scenario questions (e.g., “What do you do if a tool breaks?”)

⚙️ Practical Handling Skills

• Correctly adjust a ratchet and remove/replace a fastener
• Demonstrate safe tightening sequence with a lug wrench
• Safely clamp material in a vice and use the proper tool without risk of injury
• Show correct procedure for unplugging and storing power tools

✅ Passing Standard

• 100% Safety Compliance (no unsafe actions tolerated)
• 85%+ Tool Identification Accuracy
• Successful Completion of Practical Skills

Students who meet this standard will be awarded the Level 1 Safety Certificate and may proceed into other mini-series without taking the full 4-session Tool Mastery.

❌ If Not Passed

• Your $129 can be applied toward the full $449 Safety + Tool Mastery program (pay the $320 difference)