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I’ve always had a very curious mind as to how things work.
How they’re put together, how they come apart, and how they can be repaired.
Not only is it wiring, about lights and switches. There’s a lot of theory that goes
behind throwing those boxes in the walls: sizing your wires, bending pipe.
I love just watching the students learn and having those little light bulbs go on over their heads going,
‘Oh! I get it! I understand it now!’ and watching them pull back this information time
and time again to apply it to their new project.
Sometimes it’s really interesting to hear about the kind of theory of, you know, how electricity works.
But then they can go right from that, in a heartbeat, to ‘okay, here’s how you pull wire.
You’re going to be on a ladder, you’re going to be doing this, then you’re going to go
right from that to, you know, drilling a hole through concrete and here’s what that’s like.’
When they’re doing their hands-on projects, they’re able to tie together the electrical theory
that they learn in the classroom and their safety from the codebook to the real hands-on application,
the physical part of it, which often comes back to physics also.
Employers looking for apprentice electricians will be coming to Saint Paul College
through our job service and letting the students know that
positions are opening and that they can apply for the positions.
The feedback we get from local employers that hire our electrical students
is that they’re very pleased with the basic education that they’ve got
and how they’re versed in what skills they need.
It has like an all-encompassing trade. You have to know a little bit of,
I mean you have to know a lot about electricity, of course;
but you also have to know how buildings are put together.
With this, you can go places. It’s an education for employment, education for life.