Consortium provides student training through the Student Leadership Academy. Consortium provides worksite supervisor training through Worksite Training Workshops. Consortium provides occupational program competency guarantees. Businesses pay community college tuition. Businesses provide paid worksite experience for the duration of the apprenticeship.
Businesses guarantee full-time employment for apprentices upon their successful completion.
Participants are targeted for advanced-level positions in the business. Intensive work by representatives from business, labor, education and the community led to this tech prep program. The ETC is a comprehensive reform system and tech prep is a program within that system. Each industry designs its own apprenticeship and develops the curriculum with the education partners. All apprentices enter the Student Leadership Academy to empower the high school students to market tech prep to their peers and the community.