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Trick or Treat! Give Me Something Good to Eat!

Fair Trade chocolate samples

In celebration of Fair Trade Month, the MPTC Fair Trade College Team and Just Fare Market held a delicious lunch time event on Tuesday, October 25 at the Fond du Lac Campus (see our photos below!). Participants enjoyed Fair Trade chocolate chip cookies made by our very own Instructor Tom Endejan and culinary students.  Just Fare Market provided Fair Trade chocolate samples, as well as a beautiful variety of Fair Trade items for shopping!  Participants also entered a drawing to win Fair Trade chocolate prizes, with the grand prize including a copy of the new book “Bitter Side of Sweet”. Continue reading

October 28, 2016by Anne Lemke
Achievement, Trades

Learn while you work – Choose an apprenticeship program

Apprentice working of steel framing at Moraine Park

NOTE: This post was written by Charles Vine (Northcentral Construction Corporation.), who completed the ABC Carpentry Apprenticeship program at Moraine Park Technical College in spring 2016.

“The trades are for people that are not smart enough to go to college.”

This was a phrase I heard numerous times throughout high school and continue to hear. Looking back on my four years at MPTC, partnered with Associated Builders and Contractors, I still laugh at that statement. Continue reading

October 28, 2016by Kim Harrington

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