More than 1,400 students from 41 high schools from across Tulare and Kings Counties, as well as 37 local companies participated in the 4th Annual Trades Day at the Porterville Fairgrounds on Thursday.

Throughout the day high school students learned about careers in building, construction, and transportation industries and had fun hands-on experiences. Students were able to talk to experts at local companies and colleges, and were shown how to spread mortar and set tiles with help from staff at Visalia Ceramic Tile, learned about welding from instructors from Porterville College, how to hammer nails into wood with help from College of the Sequoias Construction Technology, and they learned how to operate a digger with the help of Operating Engineers Local 3 JATC, Larry Thompson and Noey Ce

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