The Ontario government is investing $5.4 million to design and build three mobile tech classrooms that will travel across the province and teach students and young people about the skilled trades.
The classrooms, built and operated by Skills Ontario, will feature hands-on learning stations and simulators for electrical systems, welding, crane operation, auto-painting, tire and brake work, heavy machinery and more.
The province helped launch the Trades & Tech Truck pilot program back in 2022 and reached over 40,000 students and young people, visiting more than 50 events across the province from Toronto to Ottawa and Thunder Bay.
The new mobile classrooms will be fully operational by the summer of 2024 and will accommodate roughly 150,000 visitors a year.
Over three years, they will allow nearly half a million people explore the skilled trades and will help tackle the labour shortage the province is facing.
Written by: K. Freeman
