By Josh Sigurdson
May 16, 2021 | 10:28 AM
Students attending the Regina Trades and Skills Centre (RTSC) had the opportunity to help out a local community organization.
The students laid a concrete base for the Regina Minor Softball League, which will be used a storage space for the league.
Executive Director of the RTSC, Brian Shankowsky says community projects like this are essential to the program, adding it’s hard to simulate jobsite situations in a classroom.
“As part of our training, we look for non-for-profit organizations to partner with for projects like this, so our students can experience those issues that may happen on a job site, whatever it is, the components of a job site that are difficult in a training scenario, but happen out here,” said Shankowsky. “It’s crucial for them because now they have a little closer, smaller transition to an actual employment opportunity.”