Barron Technician School

Most apprenticeship programs and trade schools run about two years for an AA degree. So our program is much faster. We're about fifteen weeks versus two years. You're gonna come in and you're gonna immediately be a part of a community. You're gonna build mentor relationships. You're gonna learn how to do the technical side of your job. You're gonna learn how to interact with our customers, and that's something that you're not gonna get going anywhere else. Probably the greatest thing about the Barron Technician School is the ability to get paid while you're in training and while you're learning a new trade. You are getting paid to learn. We provide all of the tools, all of the materials that you need to be able to be successful in school, as well as not have to pay tuition. You're actually getting paid an hourly wage to be there. I had thought about doing HVAC before, but but it wasn't something that was very feasible for me because I couldn't go to school and and work at the same time. So going to school and being paid, it's a huge benefit. It's something that I I wouldn't have been able to do without them. Students come into the school with really no knowledge of the industry whatsoever. So we take them through a number of modules. Twenty five percent of our our time is spent in textbooks. About seventy five percent of our time is actually spent in the labs with hands on tools. Barron Technician School has a state of the art lab that has twenty to thirty different pieces of equipment in it. We try to create real scenarios for them to experience and troubleshoot through and work their way through the problems just as if they were in the field. Barron has done a great job picking the instructors. Every one of them has has been in the field for a really long time and has truly experienced everything themselves. It means a lot to me to learn from somebody who's been in the field for so long. Having Dan Millspaugh as an instructor was an amazing opportunity. He's one of the brightest minds in the business, and he also has an amazing way of of teaching. After each one of the modules, we pair the students with our training technicians in the field. The stuff that they just learned, they get the opportunity to use, commits it to memory a lot better. You get to see exactly what you're gonna experience in a day to day work life as opposed to just a classroom setting. I get to have some real world experiences out in the field, which is something you wouldn't find anywhere else. We really have found that it's important for us to teach our technicians not only the technical components of their job, but also the soft skills. When we send people out into customers' homes, they're not robots. They need to be able to interact with customers and they need to be able to speak about what's important to the customer and not just what's important to the equipment. They'll need to be able to do a lot of interaction with an iPad, with a customer management system. And so our program really teaches to all those things. Being able to go to school with the people that you're gonna work with for years to come is an amazing opportunity because you get to, build those relationships not only professionally, but personally as well. The Barron Technician School is very unique in that I get to work with some of my coworkers before I even graduate. Our students are immediately plugged into that department that they're in, and they immediately start building those connections that they're gonna have well beyond school. Not only are they building relationships with each other, with our instructor, they're also building those future mentor relationships that they're gonna have even when the program's over and hopefully for the years to come as they continue to work for Behrend. It's not having to pay out of pocket for the schooling and and being paid while I go to school and have a job immediately after graduating has made it just that much easier to get into the trades. Why the Barron Technician School? Get paid to learn. All tools, textbooks, and materials are provided. Nationally recognized certifications, combine classroom experience with on the job training, learn soft skills, and build lasting relationships. It's gonna be a very rewarding career path. Congratulations, class of twenty twenty one.