Fleming College Hosting Skills Ontario Summer Camp This Week

Until Friday, Fleming College will host 18 elementary school students from across the Peterborough region for the Skills Ontario Summer Camp.

Photo by David Tuan Bui.

Hosted in the Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre, the week-long camp gives students entering Grades 7-9 a hands-on opportunity to explore careers in the industrial, construction, motive power and technology sectors according to Fleming.

Included is the Skills Ontario Trades & Tech Truck, a mobile learning unit equipped with interactive displays that introduce students to a wide range of skilled trades and technology careers. 

Campers will participate in activities related to carpentry, electrical, plumbing, computing technology, and welding, working with tools and materials in Fleming’s college-level lab spaces.

Midweek, students will visit Fleming’s Frost Campus in Lindsay for an introduction to arboriculture and heavy equipment operation, including time in the heavy equipment simulators.

The camp has team-building challenges and ends with a celebration where families are invited to see what campers have created and learned.

By the end of the week, Fleming says campers will have built wooden camp chairs and copper coat hooks, taken part in collaborative challenges and explored new skills in a supportive, engaging environment. 

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