Music Tech is one of the newer classes at McMillan that is taught by both Mrs. Erickson and Mr. Henderson. Music Tech teaches the basic theory of music as well as some complex music composition. The classes also teaches piano to help students with making their own custom pieces.
Music Tech has been at McMillan since a grant was given to the school in 1998. Henderson has been teaching Music Tech for eleven years while Erickson has been teaching it for six. It now has evolved to be the class with the most up-to-date computers in the school that also teaches students how to play the piano.
Music Tech is an elective class for only eighth graders that lasts for one semester. “My favorite part of Music Tech is when students discover that they have some compositional skill. Teaching students to play the piano is also very rewarding,” said Erickson. “My favorite part of Music Tech is getting to work with music, I love music and creating songs.”