Around 30 Mesa high schoolers recently celebrated graduation this summer, but not how you think.

A long list of juniors and seniors going to school in Mesa Unified School District recently graduated from an eight-week summer electrical pre-apprenticeship program run by Canyon State Electric. The students learned the electrical trade through hands-on education, interactive classroom sessions and role-play exercises. The students were all part of construction and technology education at Mesa High School.

“I think they’ve all been exposed to a career pathway, and for some of them, this program opened up an opportunity they never considered before,” Chantelle Frazee Jacobs, Mesa High School’s CTE career coach, said in a press release. “They did it on a whim, and now this is what they want to

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