Gen Z, the youngest generation in Colorado's workforce, is swapping textbooks for tools. More and more young people across the state, and nationwide, are choosing a career in skilled trades, leading to the nickname the "toolbelt generation."

CBS Colorado stopped by High 5 Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric , where one of their apprentices, Taylor Kreutz, was training using virtual reality.

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"If you can get this younger generation to game while learning plumbing, it's going to go really big," said Cassie Torres, the company's vice president. "That's pretty much what the virtual training is like."

"It'll show us how to flush a tankless water heater on there," said Master Diggins, a High 5 apprentice. "There's steps on exactly what to do, where, what water to turn off, what stop t

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