Use the following links to learn how you can prepare for a career in the skilled trades while you are attending secondary school.

• The Exploring Opportunities Program is a YRDSB specialty "high skills" program providing access to apprenticeships for students with an interest and aptitude in any one of the four trade sectors:  manufacturing, construction, service or transportation.  Contact your high school Guidance Department for additional information. 
  
  
• Technological education focuses on developing students’ ability to work creatively and competently with technologies that are central to their lives.

The curriculum in this area takes an activity-based, project-driven approach to learning that provides students with knowledge, skills, and experiences in communication, construction, design, hospitality and tourism, manufacturing, personal and health services, and transportation.