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The Daily Breeze reports on renewed interest in offering skilled trades classes in high school. The story is focused on summer programs currently happening at the Boys & Girls Club of the Los Angeles Harbor and Port of Los Angeles High School. Students are getting paid while learning about welding, construction, carpentry, electrical trades and plumbing. The programs are funded by Harbor Freight Tools for Schools. https://lnkd.in/eJDNyMAQ

Before and After. Prizewinning teachers built a gardening area and a shed at the U.S.VETS temporary services center in West LA this week. #Let’sBuildIt2024

Before and After. Prizewinning teachers built a seating area at the U.S.VETS temporary services center in West LA this week. #Let’sBuildIt2024

Before and After. Prizewinning teachers built benches at the U.S.VETS temporary services center in West LA this week. #Let’sBuildIt2024

"Thank you for stepping up, for learning a skillset, for filling the shortage that there is in the workforce for these jobs," 44th district Rep. Nanette Barragán said at a skilled trades student demonstration featuring students from the Boys and Girls Club of L.A. Harbor and Port of Los Angeles High School.

Before and After. Prizewinning teachers dramatically improved the landscape at the U.S.VETS temporary services center in West LA this week. #Let’sBuildIt2024

High school skilled trades teachers from across the U.S. volunteered to build picnic tables, shade structures, walking paths and landscape projects for the U.S.VETS temporary service center at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Campus. Their efforts were part of Let's Build It, an annual convening of past winners of the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence. The teachers aimed to make the temporary service center more comfortable for veterans and nonprofit staff as construction is completed by U.S.VETS and The Veterans Collective nonprofit on a historical building that will house and offer supportive services to more than 3,000 veterans and their families. Photos: Lorena, Caro, Scott Clark Photo

More than 50 high school skilled trades teachers from across the U.S. kicked off Let's Build It in Marina Del Rey with ice breaker activities that opened the floor for nationwide collaboration across different skilled trades pathways. Let's Build It is an annual convening of past winners of the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence that was designed to produce inventive ideas that could dramatically improve skilled trades education in public schools and communities across the country.

Launch Day! Students in Alliance for Community Empowerment's skilled trades program will learn how to install solar panels through real-world, on-site installation. Students will also use their skills to repair and upgrade community facilities. The Los Angeles County skilled trades summers program is funded by Harbor Freight Tools for Schools.

This summer, students from across Los Angeles County are getting paid while earning valuable credentials in skilled trades, such as construction, welding and solar panel installation. These programs are part of an expanding initiative to offer students pathways to good-paying jobs in industries seeing booming demand. https://lnkd.in/gqNEyiUb