Rosemount Technology Centre launches new carpentry program
By Terry Haig The Rosemount Technology Centre, where skilled teachers and administrators offer a slew of vocational studies programs, has something new going on. It's an intense 705-hour carpentry course, physically based in space made available at Lester B. Pearson High School in Montreal North, leading to a STC-Skills Training Certificate designed to prepare and propel a student into a welcoming workforce. This represents a pretty good time to strap on a carpenter’s tool belt at the moment, and 44 students are doing just that right now at the RTC. They’ve been at it since February and will be there until October (with a break in June). “This has been something the EMSB has been pursuing for quite a while now,” says RTC Vice-Principal Ruben Azevedo, who, working under the auspices of Principal John Pevec, has the carpentry program up and humming. “We wanted to offer the carpentry program, and now we finally have the chance to offer this STC program. We were never given the chan