To prepare vocational-technical teachers to work with dropout-prone youths in laboratories within the school and to discover how successful a special vocational-technical program would be in assisting those students with special needs, 24 dropout-prone occupational exploration students were chosen to participate in a 6-week summer experimental program. The 24 experimental students and 10 students in a control group were chosen by random sample stratified by race--half Negro, half Caucasian. Findings included: (1) Race was not a significant variable, (2) Pretests and posttests of attitudes toward school shops were not significantly different at the .05 level, (3) Dropout-prone students will attend summer school if paid and enrolled in a special program, (4) Teaching methods should actively involve such students, and (5) Negative teacher responses cause decrements in desirable student behavior. Instructional units developed for use with these students and diaries made by graduate students and instructors are included. For information concerning a set of three 16 mm kinescopes, contact the author at Department of Vocational and Technical Education, College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801. (CD)