PreApprenticeship Program Takeaways

Our pre-apprenticeship program may be the newest program we offer, but it's quickly turning into one of our most popular classes. We ask each pre-apprenticeship class a few questions throughout the program to ensure that we continue to improve the quality of the program. Some questions and frequent answers are included below to give you a better idea of what to expect during this program.

What was the best part of the course?

• "Loved all of it! I am a hands on learner." 🙌

• "Full on residential wiring. Self driven was amazing practice."

• "Learning from my mistakes."

• "Being given instructions to memorize and translate into a hands on task." 💭

• "Actually installing things and getting gloves."

• "Installing devices and wiring switch"

• "Putting together the light and watching it turn on" 💡

• "Testing my light fixture and it working"

• "Bending conduit"

• "Finishing my station and seeing my hard work pay off." 💪

• "All day hands on"

• "The small classroom size leading to lots of 1 on 1 tips/discussions" (The most students we will accept in each pre-apprenticeship program is 12!)

What were your top 5 takeaways from the program?

• "Proper Tool Safety"

• "Job Site Etiquette"

• "How Projects Run" 👷‍♂️

• "Knowledge of Most Company Structures"

• "Union vs Merit Shop"

• "What the expectations are to be an electrician"

• "Learning that electrical is pretty much in everything and you can specialize in different things" ⚡

• "I can confidently install a residential outlet."

• "How to install a GFI"

• "Wire Color Coding"

• "Health care systems get different wires." 🏥

• "Number of Conductors per Box"

• "Pigtails are harder than they look."

• "Types of Electrical Conduits"

• "Mentalities in the workplace that will lead to success" 🧠

• "Bending Conduit"

• "PVC and Metal Conduit"

• "Rules of Installing Boxes"

• "The wires will always conduct heat due to electrons always going through wire." 🔥

• "Use box fill calculation to figure out how man wires you can fit."

• "Productive Struggle"

• "I like being an electrician." 🎉

In the spirit of transparency, here are a few things our PreApprenticeship students did NOT find helpful, and what we will be improving upon in our next course in June. We are glad to see students only writing a handful of things in this category, and will use the responses we got!

• "Spend too much time on wiring stripping and bending."

• "Got a little overwhelmed with boxes."

• "The hundreds of different parts with their names was a little overwhelming."