High-school girls explore skilled trades at Mohawk College [Video]

High school students prepare sheet metal at a Mohawk College event designed to introduce girls to careers in skilled trades.

Kate McCullough The Hamilton Spectator

As teenage girls practice welding techniques on simulators, sparks and imperfections that mimic real life are displayed on the screen above them. In other Mohawk College classrooms, they plug copper pipes into fittings to make cellphone stands and bend sheet metal into a neat rectangular box.

A growing number of women are choosing to work in male-dominated trades, and these Hamilton-area high school students could be part of the next generation.

Kate McCullough is a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator,covering education. Reach her at [email protected].

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