Event to connect students with employers seeking apprentices in the automotive industry
For Immediate Release
February 11, 2016
GUELPH, Ontario – Employers from the automotive sales and service industry are invited to an event to learn more about the OYAP Dual Credit program, where selected students complete their Level 1 of trade school while still in high school.
At the luncheon, employers who are seeking apprentices will receive information about these elite students who are ready for the workplace.
Upper Grand District School Board’s partnership with Conestoga College, as part of the School College Work Initiative, provides an opportunity for students who have excelled in their senior auto service tech classes, and who have been accepted to the OYAP program, to study at the college during an eight-week period. Following that, the goal is that students who have been signed as an apprentice by an employer will begin practical, on-the-job training at the workplace.
Each year, five to eight students from the Upper Grand and Wellington Catholic District School Boards are accepted to the competitive OYAP Level 1 Dual Credit program, based on their education and experience.
OYAP is a school-to-work program that opens the door for students to explore and work in apprenticeship occupations starting in grade 11 or 12, through the Cooperative Education program.
This high-level training program provides students the opportunity to accelerate their post-secondary education by allowing them to achieve competencies and log hours toward their certification while they are still in secondary school.
Event details:
- DATE: March 3, 2016
- TIME: 12 – 1pm
- LOCATION: Conestoga College – Guelph Campus, Room #C6
- ADDRESS: 460 Speedvale Ave West, Guelph
To RSVP, please contact OYAP Coordinator Ron Aimola
[email protected]
(226) 820-5425
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