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Project Based Learning Electives provided by the Berrien Springs Virtual Academy

All students must complete a project for this class.

Skilled Trades    Spring 2025

Find this class under the Vocational Ed Category during registration

  • Location: Homeschool Nexus - 1870 Union Ave, Benton Harbor 
  • Instructor: Jon Bunnell 
    phone: 269-308-2518 
    email: jbunnell2003@icloud.com
  • Format: In-person 
  • Classes begin January 8th
  • Ages 12+
  • Wednesdays 1pm - 3pm 

Students will practice hands-on fundamental skills that are used across most trades. Students will learn how to solder, weld, use power tools and metering devices, build electrical and plumbing systems and much more. Michigan is experiencing a shortage of skilled trade workers, with an extremely favorable outlook over the next 10 years for these workers. Most skilled trades jobs lead to a six-figure revenue and allow the opportunity of private business ownership. 

Skilled Trades Syllabus

*Please note: it is important to make as informed a decision as possible when choosing your student's Community Resource classes. Most locations will allow a student to drop a class after one meeting, at no charge if it wasn't a good fit for the student, but not all. Some classes plan ahead based on the number that have signed up and have purchased materials, hired teachers, etc. and there might be a fee for class time or materials given to the student if the student drops after one or two meetings. The school cannot pay for classes that students do not complete, so choose wisely; if you do not take the class off of your student's schedule by the deadline, you may be asked to pay for the class time incurred prior to dropping the class.

Teacher of Record:  Tom Hurst


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