Proctor’s industrial arts program offers opportunities in woodworking, boat building, and metal engineering. Students learn to work with state-of-the-art lathes, planers, saws, presses, and a variety of electric and hand tools to design and build high-quality guitars, a variety of boat types, and fine furniture of all kinds. Students use both local and exotic woods, some cut from Proctor’s own timber stand. Students learn to weld and shape metal to create intricate and functional projects ranging from center punches, pepper grinders, bicycles, and utility trailers.

Proctor's industrial arts facility in the Alan Shepard Boat Shop houses a full metal shop with lathes and milling machines that range from early belt-driven to modern, computerized and automated models for our metal engineering program. The woodworking and boat building programs are held in the upper levels of this same building where astronaut, Alan Shepard once built a boat as part of a summer program at Proctor. That same boat is displayed in the lower level of the Fowler Learning Center. The wood shop is also well equipped and has in place safety-enhanced equipment and protection systems.