Is there an excellent high school skilled trades teacher in your community?
Skilled trades teachers get so little recognition but make such a big difference.
Please take a moment to thank them and then encourage them to apply for the 2021 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence at hftforschoolsprize.org.
Tell them they deserve to be recognized for their incredible work and, even during this difficult time, they deserve to be celebrated.
For more information about the program, please visit: https://harborfreighttoolsforschools.org . Applications for the prize are open at hftforschoolsprize.org.
Last year, Harbor Freight Tools for Schools distributed more than 3,500 tool kits to U.S. public high schools for students enrolled in skilled trades classes.
With more than one million students studying trades like construction, welding, manufacturing, automotive and electrical, take-home tools are one way to allow students to keep honing their hands-on skills even if their schools operate entirely or partially remotely.
The tool kits come courtesy of donated tools from Harbor Freight Tools, the nationwide tool retailer. Smidt, the founder and owner of the company, created the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools program in 2014. Today, the program is operated by The Smidt Foundation, established by Smidt in 2016.
Tool kits have been made available to teachers who are past winners of the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence and are currently teaching at a U.S. public high school. Also, the prizewinning teachers nominated a trades teacher in their community to receive tool kits. Each teacher was able to customize their requested kits depending on their students’ course of study and needs. Kits have been distributed to schools, which will lend them to students to take home for the semester or school year, similar to the way schools lend laptops.
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