Skilled Trades
Center of Excellence

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28-credit technical diploma

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Building Trades students, with an emphasis in carpentry, will prepare for this career through a blend of classroom theory and hands-on experience. Students will become adept at using hand tools, portable power tools, and other equipment common in the carpentry profession as well as working with lumber, panel products, concrete, roofing materials, fasteners, and a variety of hardware. The skills needed for site layout and foundation work, rough framing, roof framing, and exterior and interior finish work will also be developed. In addition, blueprint reading, math, surveying, and estimating components will be studied.

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