He had made a lot of phone calls to get tradies along and he would make even more ahead of next year’s event, he said. He noted: “Builders are screaming out for people and a lot of boys are really keen on building, so I want to connect them to a builder.” The trades expo was the first the school had held and it would become an annual event, given about 70 per cent of boys’ high students got jobs in the trades, Marsh said.
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Southern Institute of Technology school of advanced engineering technology programme manager Carlo Gabriel talks to students, from left, Tommy Tawhai, 16, Johannes Boersen, 16, Hunter Campbell, 16, Jack Johnston, 16, Josh Kubrycht-Ellis, 17, and Ben Stewart, 16 at the Southland Boys’ High School trades expo on Friday.