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<\/a>\u201cThere\u2019s only about five major public post-secondaries where you can get any kind of plumbing or gas-fitting training,\u201d says Vaux. \u201cUnless a kid\u2019s fortunate enough to live next to one of those post-secondaries, they\u2019re probably never going to get an opportunity. Instead of taking a field trip, it\u2019s us bringing the field trip to the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
In order to do that, there\u2019s a lot of planning that has to happen, but Vaux says the college has planned for the worst.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome places don\u2019t have power, and some of those logistics. It\u2019s worked pretty good,\u201d says Vaux. \u201cWe\u2019ve got everything from generators, propane heaters when needed. Most of our tools, honestly, are cordless these days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything down to temporary lighting is all battery-run, says Vaux. Depending on how many days the trailer is on site at a location, everything from hands-on two-hour workshop activities to week-long curriculum are taught, with the aim being to help people transition into Red Seal careers, which include gas fitting, plumbing, steam fitting, fire protection sprinkler system installer, refrigeration, and air conditioning. After the COVID-19 crisis is over, the plan is to head to some remote Indigenous communities throughout the province.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been the comfort level yet, with COVID,\u201d says Vaux. \u201cBut high schools are wide open for business; they want stuff to do. They seem to be cool with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vaux says he worked all summer on getting his safety protocols together. Now, he’s fully equipped and able to go into some of those remote locations once it\u2019s safe to do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we are working in big spaces\u2014wide open shops\u2014we wear masks, disinfect everything after we leave any institution; we\u2019ve got a chemical fogger that we can [use to] disinfect everything fairly quickly. That\u2019s been helpful,\u201d he says. \u201cIt does take longer. I\u2019m not kidding. This type of training has really increased the workload, but the reception we\u2019ve been getting is really good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vaux says the high demand for the training from Camosun comes down to \u201cstate-of-the-art equipment\u201d and the fact that they can go into remote locations where people often don\u2019t have access to the same opportunities, many of whom are anxious to learn a trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t even keep up with the requests for it right now,\u201d he says, \u201cwhich is good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Camosun College has partnered with Vancouver-based real estate company Concert Properties to bring hands-on mobile trades training to remote BC communities. In April of 2019, Concert Properties committed to donating $250,000 over three years to allow Camosun to expand its Trades for Success program, which focuses on bringing trades education to youth, adult, and K-12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20425,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions\/20425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}