Students on the Perth Amboy campus can now take part in a program offered through the New Jersey Carpenters Apprentice Training and Education Fund.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY -- The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District has expanded its partnership with the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters and will now offer carpentry training to students at its Perth Amboy campus. Previously available only to students on the East Brunswick and Piscataway campuses, the program, through the New Jersey Carpenters Apprentice Training and Education Fund, provides high school juniors and senior with a path to an apprenticeship program after graduation.
The students are bused once a week to the Carpenters Union training center in Kenilworth for a full day of instruction in framing, building concrete forms, installing dropped ceilings, flooring and steel studs, millwright and cabinet-making, workplace safety regulations and tool use. They also shadow apprentices in training. "It's a very big, comprehensive partnership," said Sean McDonald, director of career and technical education. "This gives our students a very good opportunity to get into a great career."
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