TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Students at Chiles High School are now one step closer to starting their careers, as school leaders cut the ribbon on a new welding facility Tuesday.

“Our youngest students, 14 years old, are already working on learning to become welders,” principal Joe Burgess said.

The program is taught by instructors from Lively Technical College, and the goal is for students to be certified when they graduate high school. In previous years, students would have to drive to Lively in order to take this course, but now, Chiles has its own facility on campus.

“I have wanted to weld, pretty much, my whole life,” sophomore Trevor Saalmann said. His grandfather was a welder in the Navy, and Saalmann said he grew up around the trade. “I learned about the basics when I was really y

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