Wood Technology Center

Our Wood Technology Center is a comprehensive, technical, and state-of-the-art training facility designed especially for the wood construction and woodworker professions in Washington State. We provide vocational education to the public and local industry in Cabinetmaking and Architectural Woodworking, Carpentry, and Marine Technology. Our five-quarter Carpentry program is designed to prepare students for employment as apprentice carpenters. The carpentry program focuses on hands-on experience where students work on full size building and remodeling projects (with a crew) while learning the carpentry trade. Our five-quarter Cabinetmaking and Architectural Woodworking program is designed to prepare students for employment in cabinetmaking, furniture construction, and fine woodworking. The course curriculum combines technical instruction with shop experience and precision training. Our four-quarter Marine Technology program at Seattle Central College prepares students for a career in the boatbuilding and repair-refit industries. The program teaches entry-level skills in the building and repair of wood and fiberglass hull and vessel components, outboard and inboard engines, testing, maintaining, and repairing electrical systems, and the installation of marine pumps in new or retrofit vessels. Instruction also includes the techniques of working with fiberglass and related chemicals. Students who complete the certificate program will have the option to complete an AAS degree by completing an internship, taking marine electronics, marine welding, or advanced wooden boat joinery and repair.