Apprentices advance their careers & education in journeyman program

MANSFIELD — Kam Vanderpool knew he had a good opportunity to learn career skills as a 17-year-old student at Pioneer Career and Technology Center.

“At our orientation night, I signed up for precision machining and ended up loving it,” he said. “Even coming from a hands-on background, there was a lot of stuff I didn’t know how to do walking in the door, but other people here knew what they were doing and showed me.”