Do you like to build things? Want to make projects using real building materials while learning trades skills? A career in the trades is a stable, exciting, rewarding and challenging way to earn a good living. Explore different career paths while building trades-related projects. Blast through steel with torches, cut lumber with chop saws, and wire up lights and switches.

The Trades Exploration course allows students to gain valuable hands-on experience in various trades. This course will expose students to different trades career paths with a emphasis on carpentry, electrical work, welding and automotive work. Exposure to these trades will give students a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to obtain a job in a trade or simply gain valuable hands-on life skills. Students who complete this course will have better awareness of career paths and apprenticeship opportunities.