Stratford District Secondary School
428 Forman Avenue N5A 6R7 Stratford, ON, Canada

Darcy Illman is skillfully removing a tire off its rim in Mr. Hoogenes’s autoshop at SDSS. Technical programs at SDSS provide students with a base knowledge of skills that can be transferred to future co-op placements.

Strickland’s Toyota Supports the SDSS Co-op Program by Mentoring OYAP student Thomas MacDonald as an Automotive Service Technician! Pictured to the left is Co-op student Thomas MacDonald to the right is mentor, mechanic Chris Bomasuit. In the foreground a new 2021Tundra has been prepared for delivery. To be qualified in this licensed trade 6,500 hours of on the job training must be experienced and 720 hours of in-school training must be attended to. In Ontario 42 650 people work as Automotive Service Technicians.(Job Bank Canada)

M. Vancoillie Masonry Inc., is in the process of rebuilding a chimney. To be qualified in this trade 4,880 hours of work experience must be logged and 720 hours of in school training must be completed. Many opportunities are available in the construction sector trades. Twenty-one percent of brick layers in the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula area, are between the ages of 55-64.(OCS 2019 report)