Modern Apprenticeships

A Marion County program to connect high school students with paid, on-the-job experience will receive $6 million for three years to continue its work.

We're bringing you stories of workers across Indiana, about what they do and how they find meaning in their jobs. This week, Indiana Public Broadcasting's Justin Hicks profiles Ramiro Delgado. He's a junior in high school in the Modern Apprenticeship Program. The day we caught up with him, he trained with Keith Fondaw, a steamfitter with Indianapolis Public Schools.

A program in northern Indiana recently received $500,000 to continue paid career training for high schoolers.

The students will be placed at 16 companies around Indianapolis -- several of them with the workforce groups who designed the program, including local workforce board EmployIndy.

Agencies in central Indiana are launching a new apprenticeship program for up to 30 high school students next school year.