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Oct 25, 2024

La Vergne High School welding lab brings new opportunities for students

LA VERGNE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In an effort to promote trade careers, La Vergne High School is continuing to enhance their educational trade programs. Among the many trade career classes, welding remains a popular course.Students can start the courses th...

Oct 13, 2024

Need a new career? Titans stadium construction brings opportunities in the trades

Earlier this year, Tennessee Titans fans were excited to see the groundbreaking for the state of the art new Nissan Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2027. The new stadium will be a game-changing facility for the city of Nashville and large...

Oct 12, 2024

America’s New Millionaire Class: Plumbers and HVAC Entrepreneurs

Aaron Rice has two logos tattooed on his left leg: one from the plumbing business he co-founded more than a decade ago, and another from the private-equity-backed company that recently bought it. Few businesses are as vital to their customers...

Oct 10, 2024

Gallatin program has youth thinking early about a career in trade work

SUMNER COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — More Tennesseans are choosing higher education. And it’s not just four-year universities. Thousands more are entering TCAT programs, community colleges are seeing more students, too.A look at the eq...

Jun 9, 2024

Gen Z Plumbers and Construction Workers Are Making #BlueCollar Cool

Most of the time, when Lexis Czumak-Abreu is stripping cables in a ditch or troubleshooting a sparking outlet, the size of her fan base doesn’t mean too much to her. But then she’ll be strolling through the airport in Las Vegas, and a str...

Jun 5, 2024

How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation

America needs more plumbers, and Gen Z is answering the call.Long beset by a labor crunch, the skilled trades are newly appealing to the youngest cohort of American workers, many of whom are choosing to leave the college path. Rising pay and new technolog...

May 17, 2024

Simulator gives students experience with different career opportunities

SAVANNAH, Tenn. — One local school had a unique experience to learn about different career opportunities.In the parking lot of Hardin County High School was a large trailer filled with educational opportunities for the students. The trailer is from...

Apr 10, 2024

Maryville High School students encouraged to 'Be Pro Be Proud' with trades tou

Maryville High Schools students had opportunities this week to try welding, driving an 18-wheeler, moving dirt with an excavator, working from a lineman’s bucket truck and more, all safely with simulators and virtual reality.The Be Pro Be Proud tour...

Jan 2, 2024

Be Pro Be Proud visits Rock Springs Middle School

Eighth-grade students at Rock Springs Middle School spent two days going rotating through the simulators aboard the Be Pro Be Proud of Tennessee mobile lab. See a video of the visit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa74a8Tn4QE

Nov 29, 2023

The Tennessean: Virtual reality trade simulators prepare Tennessee students to enter workforce

Nashville TennesseanBy: Katie Nixonhttps://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/sumner/2023/11/29/tennessee-students-try-trades-on-mobile-workshops-statewide-tour/71301240007/More people are leaving the trades workforce than entering.For every five retirin...

Oct 19, 2023

Sumner County Schools launches innovative program to cultivate skilled workers

Read the full article from News Channel 5 HEREGALLATIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — In a bid to prepare young students for the world of trade careers, Sumner County Schools has introduced an exciting initiative aimed at bridging the impending skills gap in the w...

Oct 19, 2023

Be Pro Be Proud Tennessee launches in Gallatin

Read the full article from Gallatin News HERESumner County Schools (SCS) was showcased at the state launch of ‘Be Pro Be Proud Tennessee,’ a mobile workshop last week at Vol State Community College. It was a first look at the new cutting...