On November 20, 2009, Jirka Roubal submits a proposal to the school management to build a new vocational classroom that would be used at the tertiary technical school to teach modeling and control of systems using computers and at the secondary school to teach automation. At that time, the school was starting to implement a classroom for teaching physics, so this proposal was not heard. However, after the implementation of this classroom, the school planned to build an applied physics classroom, and therefore Jirka Roubal submitted a proposal in January 2010 to build this classroom as a multifunctional classroom in which teaching could take place across all years of secondary and tertiary technical school. Specifically, it would involve the observation of physical processes in the first year of secondary school, through the confrontation of these observations with interpreted theory in the second year, then teaching automation in the third and fourth year of secondary school to modeling and control of technology using a computer in tertiary technical school. This proposal was accepted, and preparations could begin for the construction of a new classroom. The management of this classroom was entrusted to Jirka Roubal. At the same time, the construction of the first teaching aid, the Water Management Model, began as part of Tomáš Šikýš's graduation thesis.

On 23 April 2010, Jirka Roubal submitted specific requests to the school management for wiring, placement of desks respecting the location of computers so that they cannot be freely manipulated, and the purchase of teaching aids and Matlab/Simulik software [1]. Except for the layout of the desks, which were eventually arranged differently, all requirements were fully met.

On 27 April 2011, the classroom was inaugurated in the presence of representatives of universities, representatives of the South Bohemia Region, Festo, s. r. o., and ČEZ, a. s., which was the main sponsor of the new classroom. Before this date Ing. Jiří Bumba designed and manufactured a model of an electric controlled power supply and the school had a photovoltaic panel installed on the roof for teaching purposes.

In June 2011, Tomáš Šikýř defended his graduate thesis, in which, with the help of Mgr. Miroslav V. Hospodářský, he designed and built the Water Management Model. In the autumn of the same year, the school acquired two more aids, namely a Ball and Beam Model and a Portal Crane Model (Inverted pendulum), which was subsequently fitted with a flexible carrier for supply wires by Ing. Jan Fuka. Thus, the classroom started to move towards the area of modelling and control of systems.

In September 2013, Jirka Roubal proposed to build two more teaching aids in the form of a Model of a heated house and a Model of a Hydro power plant. These two aids were realized by June 2014 as part of the graduate work of Jiří Boštička and Petr Rabiňák with great help of Mgr. Miroslav V. Hospodarský and also with the contribution of a student of tertiary technical school Tomáš Pechanek. The idea of how to extend the model of the pumped storage power plant came at that time from the student Patrik Pavlát, who in June 2015 defended his graduate thesis in which he designed and built a Watt centrifugal controller to control the turbine speed on this model.

As the interest in building the aids waned a bit afterwards, Jirka Roubal designed and built two more aids during the 2015/2016 school year with the help of students from the tertiary technical school; in January the MF 624 Simulator and in May 2016 the MF 624 Interface– PLC. Since then, PLC automata from AMiT, spol. s r.o. can also be used in the classroom to control technology. Subsequently, David Martínek programmed the Robot Karel as part of his graduation thesis, which has since been used in teaching algorithmization and writing algorithms using flowcharts.

In the summer of 2018, Jirka Roubal designed and produced a teaching tool for teaching basic logic in automation at secondary school called LogicalKit. In December 2019, the Sorting Line Model was purchased and is used in the teaching of PLC automation programming. In January 2020, two PLC automata from the Czech company AMiT, spol. s r. o. were transferred from the practice for this reason. In March of the same year, the classroom administrator restored the Hovercraft Model that was once built, among many other amazing teaching aids, by Ing. Jan Fuka.

In June 2022, Jiří Chromý continued the creation of teaching aids and designed and built a model of a jet engine from a 3D printer as part of his graduation thesis. A year later he was imitated by Miroslav Kubů, who designed and built a Matlab/Simulink computer communication interface with teaching models. In October 2023, Martin Hrubý's graduate thesis completed the creation of the Photovoltaic Power Plant Model, which was the only one that could not be completed for many years.

In the autumn of 2023, a Vacuum Gripper Robot was purchased to extend the sorting line model and add another dimension for PLC automation programming. The most recent work was the creation of this website as part of Stanislav Chvátal's graduate thesis...

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