For the month of June 2020, we will be featuring resources and inspiring profiles of women in the trades & manufacturing!
Jacqui Collier, Sales and Marketing Representative for Tamarack Developments Corporation
"A Salute to Women in Trades & Manufacturing"
How Peng-Sang Cau's vision helped build a company from the ground up.
Peng-Sang Cau, President and CEO of Kingston's Transformix Engineering Inc., shares a favorite analogy about what it means to be an entrepreneur: "A cook will follow a recipe, ingredient by ingredient,"she says. "If they don't have all the ingredients, they won't make the dish. A chef, on the other hand, opens up the fridge and says, 'what do I have? What can I make?'
Our Keynote Speaker: Rhonda Barnet, COO of AVIT Manufacturing and Champion for the "We Can Do It" Campaign!
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Photo: Rhonda Barnet
Our Keynote Speaker: Nicole LeClair Will Speak About Her Journey - 'Strive, Persist, Be In It With All Your Heart'
"There is a pre-conceived idea that welders are big men that burn welding rods all day and options are limited, that's not the case at all'" Nicole LeClair
Photo: Nicole LeClair
New: Apprenticeship Incentive Grant for Women. In Budget 2018, the Government of Canada announced a new Apprenticeship Incentive Grant for Women to further support women in entering, progressing, and completing their training in Red Seal trades where women are underrepresented. The Apprenticeship Incentive Grant for Women (AIG-W) is a taxable cash grant of $3,000 per year/level or equivalent ...www.canada.ca
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Women make up less then 5% of skilled tradespeople, and this semester a new School Within a College (SWAC) program is being offered at St. Lawrence College with the Limestone District School Board to help increase that number. The Women in the Trades SWAC (WITTS) class is a group of female senior high school students taking a senior English credit, senior Gender Studies and a coop credit as well as a Taste of the Trades Dual Credit. The dual credit includes Carpentry, Millwright, Electrical, Welding, Plumbing, Masonry, Culinary and Esthetics.
This program has allowed given our students a chance to experience a variety of trades led by college instructors in a supportive environment. Fieldtrips and guest speakers have included taking an introductory rope access course to explore how rope access is used in trade sites around the world, female tradespeople sharing their experiences and a day of learning in St. Lawrence College’s Indigenous Services Centre.
We also attended Skills Ontario’s Women in the Trades Career Exploration Event held at Loyalist College in February.
“I really like being able to have the opportunity to do things that I felt I couldn’t before. I had thought about trades, but thought it was more of a ‘guy thing’. I was closed off, but I’ve seen other girls who do it for a living and realize it’s worth it.” – WITTS Student Brook McFeeters
“Being in a girl-only class has made the trades classes seem more comfortable. I don’t feel challenged by other students, and I feel like we try to support each other.” – WITTS student Desirae Montpetit
For More Information: Women in the Trades (WITTS) SWAC with Limestone District School Board
In this LDSB Dual Credit school within a college (SWAC) program, students will attend St. Lawrence College during Semester 2. This program is a trade’s exploration opportunity for young women to experience the trades in a hands-on, supportive environment. This program will encourage young women to explore various trades while providing experiential opportunities to encourage women to pursue careers in the trades. These opportunities will include guest speakers, community partnerships field trips such as Young Women Conference with Skill’s Ontario. All students will be interviewed by LDSB.
Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
A student working toward their Ontario Secondary School Diploma can be placed in an apprenticeable training experience through a Co-op placement, Focus Program or a Specialist High Skills Major Program where they receive practical experiences that may be counted towards the completion of their apprenticeship. The OYAP, Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program, starts with co-operative education and an interest in a skilled trade. From co-op, the student working in a trade specific placement will have the opportunity to identify as an OYAP apprentice with the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities.
Apprenticeship is one of the post-secondary pathway destinations students can choose as an outcome to secondary school education. Apprenticeship is a method of learning used in the skilled trades through a combination of on-the-job training and technical in-school learning based on the Training Standards provided by the Ontario College of Trades.
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