Washington Manufacturing Week visited Gar-Pal

Teresa Simpson, Whitman County Gazette | Oct 20, 20220

Photo Courtesy of Brian Mittage count

Colton Pfaff, a junior, (left) and Lyman Olson, a freshman, work on dissembling a generator as part of the automotive pre-apprenticeship program at Garfield-Palouse High School.

PALOUSE– The Association of Washington Business (AWB) which serves as Washington's state manufacturing association, went on the road Thursday, Oct. 6, for their sixth-annual Manufacturing week bus tour.

One of their stops was in Palouse at the Gar-Pal high school, Tuesday, Oct. 11. The bus tour stopped due to the school's new innovative automotive pre-apprenticeship technician program, which gives students a chance to earn industry certification while gaining on-the-job experience.

"We had a great opportunity to see their brand new youth apprenticeship program. It just started this fall," said...