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In almost every region in Canada, there is an urgent need for more workers to fill well-paying positions in skilled trades and engineering technology.

That message was given loud and clear to female high school students today at the annual Jill of All Trades event held at Cambrian College.

Industry leaders, local sponsors, staff, and faculty from Cambrian College pulled out all the stops to showcase everything the skilled trades and engineering technology sectors have to offer young women considering their next steps after high school.

200 students from seven local high schools as well as from the Serpent River First Nation and the Nipissing/Parry Sound Catholic District School Board, took part in Jill of All Trades this year.

The students experienced trades and technology careers first-hand by taking part in hands-on activities and workshops in a number of Cambrian’s labs.

“Every year this event gets bigger and better,” says Renee Scott, Cambrian’s Director of Marketing, Recruitment, and Student Success. “This event is a win for everyone involved. Female students get an opportunity to explore good careers they may not have considered otherwise, and they are meeting women in the trades who can encourage and motivate them. Employers are already recruiting the next generation of talented employees, particularly young women. We also get to show the quality of the trades and engineering technology programs we have to offer, plus our campus experience.”

Cambrian College and select sponsors awarded seven $1,000 scholarships and two $500 scholarships to students who plan on pursuing careers in trades and engineering technology at Cambrian College.

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Read the full Northern Ontario Business news article by Len Gillis.

Powerline tech’s message to young women in trades: You can do it

Lauren Schandlen addressed high schoolers during Cambrian College’s annual Jill of All Trades event.

More than 200 young women from across Greater Sudbury were at Cambrian College on Oct. 24 to hear stories of how more and more women are finding success in the industrial trades.

But for all the successes, there was also a story of overcoming a challenge.

One of the speakers was Cambrian graduate (2017), Lauren Schandlen, who is now a Red Seal powerline technician for Ontario Hydro. She has worked on hydro line repair jobs across Ontario, which included dangling from a helicopter to install hydro poles in remote locations.

Schandlen went to high school in Bracebridge and now lives in Orillia.

Most recently, Schandlen returned from working in Georgia and Florida, helping to repair hydro lines damaged by hurricanes there.

She also told a harrowing story of working on a frozen, icy hydro tower near Toronto a few years back.

Schandlen said she had climbed about a third of the way up, five storeys high, when she realized she could not reach up to the next spar. Schandlen said it was a terrible moment for her at the time.

“It was February, icy and cold. I made so many excuses in my head of why I couldn’t do it. I’m not strong enough, I’m too short, I’m tired, I can’t do it. As I sat there, 50 feet in the air, everyone else on my climbing crew was already at the tower. I looked down at the guys on the ground and started to tear up behind my tinted safety glasses,” she said… Read the rest of the Northern Ontario Business news article by Len Gillis.