Employers interested in working with Maine youth in registered apprenticeship programs.

 

Two years of customized high school academics and 1,000 hours of on-the-job training during the junior and senior years, culminating in permanent employment and entry into the Maine Apprenticeship Program.

 

The student enters the Maine Pre-Apprentice Program as a high-school junior and works for the employer part-time during his/her junior and senior school years and either part or full-time during the summer. When the pre-apprentice graduates from school, he/she also graduates from the Pre-Apprentice Program. The student receives a Certificate of Completion of Pre-Apprenticeship from the Maine State Apprenticeship and Training Council, and can then choose to enter The Maine Apprenticeship Program. If he/she does enter the Maine Apprenticeship Program, then his/her on-the-job training time in the pre-apprenticeship program will count towards the Maine Apprenticeship Program.