Making a trade education more accessible.

We started Tradeskills around a simple goal: to develop an online pathway that helps people explore and learn the trades.

For several decades our country has looked down upon, ignored and even disparaged career paths that involve working with your hands. Our schools long ago stopped encouraging our youth to explore and pursue the trades. In recent years, as school budgets grew tighter, the first programs to go were those that enabled students to learn basic trade skills like carpentry, automotive repair, and welding. In doing so, several generations of students have been steered towards a four-year college education, even if they would have flourished in a trade.

We want to help people see all the rewarding, good-paying, high demand trade jobs that are available all across the country. We want to give equal access to a trade education no matter a person's location, financial status, age, gender or nationality. We believe that everyone should learn basic trade skills. When people become skilled at something, it gives them the confidence that they can learn anything they put their mind to. It changes their life.

We are starting with appliance repair and intro to carpentry. We will continually be adding new material, hands-on projects, and more trades as soon as resources allow. We are a small team right now, but we have a big goal! Help people everywhere learn skills that will change their life. Your support, encouragement, and feedback are immensely valuable to us! We would love to hear from you, even if it's just to say hello. [email protected]