8. Overview of Program Please give a brief description of the initiative, in one or two sentences. A custom co-op program where students hand-picked by the company are given the opportunity to develop skills in the machinist trade and the company develops dedicated employees for their labour force.

9. Why Developed / Problems / Issues Targeted

 What are the main aims or objectives of the initiative? Is it designed to address any particular problems or issues? If so, please specify what these are. Local economy not big enough to employ all young people who grow up there. The program creates highquality home-grown career opportunities for local youth.

10. Key Features / Content

  • Innovative
  • Effective
  • Promising
 Please describe the main features of the program, focusing in particular on those aspects that are particularly innovative, effective or promising.
  • Awarded the Landry Foundation’s Innovative Technology program Award.
  • a 25,000 square foot facility that houses some of the world’s most advanced machining technology and equipment.
  • Year 1 students spend 2 afternoons a week at the company learning on-the-job under supervision of their teacher.
  • Year 2 students spend all weekday afternoons at company, job shadowing and performing duties and learning about “getting the job at hand done.”
11. Funding Mechanisms Please describe the type of funding mechanism used for this initiative (e.g. provider’s own budget, service contract, grant, co-funding etc.)  
12. Organizational Dimensions Please describe any key organizational dimensions of this initiative, e.g. delivery mechanisms, number of trainers, reporting structure etc.  
13. Partnerships Integral or Related Are there any partner organizations involved in the delivery of the initiative? If so, please provide brief details of the partnership arrangements.

 
14. Stakeholder Involvement What mechanisms are used, if any, to involve key stakeholders involved in the development, delivery or evaluation of the initiative? Which groups of stakeholders are involved?