(submitted photo/Carlton Trail College)

By Cam Lee

Welding partnership

Partnership between school division, college offers welding program

Jan 31, 2020 | 9:00 AM

A partnership designed to give students in Humboldt an introduction to welding is now celebrating its 10th year.

Carlton Trail College and Horizon School Division have teamed up to offer Humboldt Collegiate Institute (HCI) students a welding program.

“The program has the college providing the facility, the machinery, and the tools for students to learn welding, with HCI providing the instruction, as well as further connection to opportunities such as Saskatchewan’s Youth Apprenticeship Program,” Development and Communications Manager for Carlton Trail College Jennifer Brooks told northeastNOW.

Brooks said the partnership allows the students to try their hand at a trade that they may not have the opportunity to do in a traditional academic program.

“It’s competitive. Students have to apply, and there’s the expectation that they show up to the shop and they fully participate,” Brooks said. “It’s a great opportunity to get that experiential learning into the classroom, and hopefully encourage some of the students to continue on with some skills-based or trades education down the road.”

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HCI Principal Cory Popoff said the program has done a lot for students of the high school.

“It has exposed them to a trade at a deeper level than what we could ever do just with our own facilities,” Popoff said. “Our partnership has really paid off in the long run, in terms of placing great welders into our industries and businesses around our areas.”

He said the students choose the program for a variety of reasons.

“Sometimes they are already working in agricultural business so they need that skill on the farm, and sometimes they’re looking for some employment and they really like what they’re doing,” Popoff said.

According to Brooks, there is also a growing demand in Saskatchewan for skilled trades.

“Provincially, we know that demand will remain strong for apprenticeship training [and] trade certificate and diploma programs, with around 100,000 jobs opening up over the next five years,” Brooks said.

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