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At a time of the year when most children are swimming, biking or heading to adventure camp, many others are being introduced to potential skilled trade careers through a different kind of camp.<\/p>\n

Organized in partnership with industry partners and community colleges throughout the province, the Skills Ontario\u2019s<\/a> Trades and Tech Summer Camps are one-week-long day camps geared to children entering Grades 7 to 9.<\/p>\n

During those one-week sessions the \u201ccampers\u201d participate in hands-on industrial, construction, motive power, service and technology sector workshops. Some of those workshops include auto repair, welding, carpentry and culinary.<\/p>\n

\"Welding
SKILLS ONTARIO – Welding is one of the workshops conducted at Skills Ontario\u2019s Trades and Tech Summer Camps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of the program, they also explore careers in skilled trades through interactive games, entrepreneurship programs and industry tours.<\/p>\n

An example of the latter was a visit to the Toyota Cambridge plant in late July for participants of the Conestoga College camp, says Skills Ontario CEO Ian Howcroft.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur camps provide a fantastic opportunity to add an educational twist to summer vacations. We try to make them fun,\u201d says Howcroft, emphasizing that, through the hands-on activities related to skilled trades, the campers develop communication, problem-solving and teamwork skills.<\/p>\n

Although Skills Ontario \u201cdoesn\u2019t like to turn anyone away,\u201d the camps have to be restricted to about 15 to 18 participants for logistical and organizational reasons.<\/p>\n

The registration fee is $250 plus tax for each camper. But some school boards cover the fees for their students, says Howcroft.<\/p>\n

A major feature is a trade and tech truck with an array of equipment which reinforces what the students learn in the college workshops. Some examples include a 3D printer and heavy crane simulator. As there is only one truck, it rotates between the colleges.<\/p>\n

However, Skills Ontario will be acquiring three more this year under a provincial funding program, Howcroft says.<\/p>\n

Launched about 20 years ago, the summer camp program was greatly expanded throughout the province in 2011.<\/p>\n

Now, it consists of approximately 28 camps in a geographic arc stretching northwest to Thunder Bay, east to Ottawa and southwest to Windsor.<\/p>\n

In areas where camps serve First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities, \u201cwe do our best to ensure that our programs are led by and inclusive of Indigenous peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Skills Ontario employee manages the overall program and each camp is administered by onsite personnel who function in an assisting role.<\/p>\n

But the courses are taught by college or industry instructors who are specialists in their fields, says Howcroft, emphasizing the critical role the colleges perform in providing those instructors, the venues and the equipment the students use.<\/p>\n

Sheridan College\u2019s Brampton campus actually hosts three separate one-week camps at its Magna School for the Skilled Trades.<\/p>\n

\"Fourteen-year-old
DAN O\u2019REILLY – Fourteen-year-old Josephine was one of two female participants at Skills Ontario\u2019s Trades and Tech Summer Camp at Sheridan College\u2019s Brampton campus. She is uncertain about career in skills trades and may consider architecture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each week begins with icebreaker, introductions and safety talks. By Monday afternoon the students are working in a carpentry workshop. That\u2019s followed by plumbing, milling machinery and welding workshops, says Skills Ontario program facilitator Chris Cole.<\/p>\n

Following the lead of training institutions, the students\u2019 introduction to welding is through a virtual platform on the Wednesday afternoon. That sets the stage for a full day endeavour on Thursday where, first they weld trial pieces and then advance to cutting, soldering and transforming copper piping into cloak racks, he says.<\/p>\n

As with a number of their other creations, the campers get to keep the coat racks, says Cole.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the welding all the other subjects are \u201chands-on, right from the start.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday mornings the students complete their plumbing projects and then the week wraps up with an invitation-showcase event for the benefit of parents who see what their children have created, says Cole.<\/p>\n

Interspersed throughout the week are a number of interconnected games Skills Ontario staff organize.<\/p>\n

One involves insulating an egg with dollar-store material and then dropping it from a staircase. If the egg cracks or breaks, then the insulation isn\u2019t sure enough and the test fails. Another game is constructing a freestanding tower comprised of newspapers, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe games are intended to test the students\u2019 creativity and problem-solving abilities,\u201d says Suzane Peynadeo, a program facilitator with the Dufferin Peel Catholic School Board. It is one of a number of school boards that support the program.<\/p>\n

At one of the Sheridan camps, Peynadeo had an opportunity to underscore the value of the program in a discussion with Josephine, one of two female participants.<\/p>\n

The 14-year-old said she was attending the camp because her mother suggested it, but probably wouldn\u2019t enter a skilled trade.<\/p>\n

Instead, she is considering architecture, to which Peynadeo responded: \u201cBut architects work with skilled trades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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