Trailer with instructor will travel to Sault and Algoma District elementary schools to introduce students to skilled trades
The Algoma District School Board is now using a new mobile trades trailer to travel to Sault and area elementary schools and give Grades 7 and 8 students hands-on experience in working with tools and arouse their interest in the skilled trades as they prepare to enter secondary school and to get them thinking about skilled trades as a career option.
“I’m going to be talking to the Grades 7 and 8 teachers and the classes, coming up with a project idea that’s theirs to work on, coming up with a plan, bringing in the materials and doing it. A lot of it will be working in wood but my plan is to at least introduce the kids to all kinds of other skills and tasks from other trades as well,” Hicks told SooToday.
“I want to get them interested and make them aware that it’s pretty cool to work with their hands, work with tools, build things and repair things,” Hicks said. “This was the vision of Mike Hicks to actually make this trailer mobile and all of these pieces fitting in so we’re really looking forward to seeing this in action,” said Marcy Bell, ADSB superintendent of education speaking to the board at its regular monthly meeting held Tuesday evening.
The Skills Ontario event on Wednesday is the local competition in construction, focusing on individual carpentry.
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