NOTICE: Registration for the Career Technical Centre with Nanaimo-Ladysmith Public School is ONLY through this website. We do not collect registration fees.

Academic Construction Experience (ACE)

Earn graduation credits while gaining hands-on construction and trades experience.

Academic Construction Experience (ACE)

Are you interested in Trades and are looking for something different to keep you engaged at school?

Join the Academic Construction Experience (ACE) program. This full-time program is run at Cedar Secondary for a whole semester and has your course work based on Construction.

Students take their English 11 and Workplace Math 11 along with a construction course and Career Life Connections 12. All course work is connected to trades. In this program you will complete required courses needed for graduation and gain trade-based skills to make you employable.

Transportation to Cedar is not provided but the program starts later in the morning to provide time to travel.

This is for present grade 10 students to sign up now for your grade 11 year.