Whittier Tech Students Attend Massachusetts Girls in Trade Conference and Career Fair

HAVERHILL – Superintendent Maureen Lynch is pleased to reveal that Whittier Technology trainees went to the Massachusetts Girls in Profession Meeting and also Job Fair recently.

On Wednesday, April 13, 24 Whittier Technology elders from the Woodworking, Electric, Design, HEATING AND COOLING, and also Steel Manufacture paths went to the occasion at IBEW Citizen 103 in Dorchester. They were come with by Design Trainer Jaylene dos Santos, cooling and heating Trainer Scott Marchand, and also Woodworking Trainer John Lavigne. 

The occasion is made to motivate women trainees to seek ultramodern professions in the structure professions, and also give them with assistance and also valuable sources. At the occasion, trainees connected with women experts from different professions, learnt more about the procedure of putting on the union, and also discovered work possibilities.

Trainees consulted with Neighborhood 103 participant Tori Kitchings, a 2019 Whittier Technology Electric alumna from Haverhill. She shared her experience as a female in the electric sector and also offered trainees with guidance on exactly how to be successful in sectors traditionally sought by guys.

“It is an objective of ours to encourage women trainees to seek courses where ladies are underrepresented,” Superintendent Lynch stated. “We really feel that it is necessary to reveal our trainees to possibilities like these to make sure that they can imagine themselves in these rooms despite their identification. When trainees see individuals comparable to them in their sector, they are most likely to be successful, specifically when offered possibilities to network.”

Whittier Technology is dedicated to commemorating trainees going after ultramodern professions, consisting of with after-school clubs, open home screens, visitor audio speakers, ad campaign, and also school outing.

“This most definitely makes me believe that going after signing up with IBEW Citizen 103 may be a great path for me after college graduation. The union has a collaboration with Wentworth Institute of Modern technology to make credit reports while used which is an additional fantastic advantage of this sector. Connecting with various building and construction business was incredible, they had great deals of cost-free product and also it was fantastic to see a lot of ladies in our area doing job they enjoy,” stated Jazzy Dang, a junior from Haverhill examining in the Electric program.

Professional locations are thought about ultramodern if people of one sex consist of less than 25% of those used because area.

“This is my 4th year dealing with the Massachusetts Girls in Profession Company, as a female in a sector where I usually was the just one, It’s remarkable to see the development in our sectors and also their dedication to equal rights,” Trainer dos Santos stated. 

Concerning Massachusetts Girls in Profession

Massachusetts Ladies in Profession was released in 2015 by a collaboration of academic, governmental and also union companies with a common objective of sustaining and also urging women job and also technological education and learning trainees and also alumnae to seek professions in the structure professions. The team’s goal is to aid women trainees in intermediate school and also senior high school — in addition to current senior high school grads — to learn more about and also begin professions in high-paying, high-skilled professions in union building and construction professions.”