High school students from Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio tried plumbing, electrical and HVAC work at a Building Trades Career Day on Oct. 21 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. The Southwest Colorado Education Collaborative organized the event to show students trades they may not see in school.
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High school students from Durango, Bayfield and Ignacio got a hands-on look at plumbing, electrical, and HVAC work at a building trades career day at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. The Southwest Colorado Education Collaborative organized the event, partnering with Pueblo Community College Southwest and M&R Service. You’re watching the Local News Network brought to you by Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers and the Payroll Department.
Today we have what we call Building Trades Career Day. And so in our local schools, there really isn’t training for plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and so they don’t get an opportunity to see what those jobs are. And so we partnered with M&R Service that provides all those services for our region, as well as PCC Southwest in order for students to get hands-on with those careers, see what kind of skills they may have, what interests they have to see if it could be a career that they want.
This is very helpful. You get to hang around with people who have experience and your friends, and you get to learn a lot of stuff between it.
We brought several of our trades that we are part of, which is plumbing, electric, and HVAC, and we’re providing opportunities for the students to see what all those trades are about gain a little interest in it and just get a little knowledge about what the trades entail.
I think overall across the country, we are starting to see more of the younger generations realize they don’t have to go to a four-year college or maybe pay for the big degrees that they can make a living by doing a CTE program or a trade school or even apprenticeships where you can just come out of school and immediately go in and start making some money and learning to do something that you can make a living for. I think that we are starting to see that a little bit more.
The collaborative connects students across Southwest Colorado with careers in fields from building trades to health sciences and tourism. For more information, visit swcoedcollaborative.org and for more stories like this, visit LNN.news.
