Construction Industry Training Council

If you like the challenge of learning a new skill, if you are a hard worker and want a career in a high paying industry the Construction Industry Training Council (CITC) of Colorado apprenticeship program is for you

Apprenticeship is hands-on training for people who enjoy learning by doing. About 90 per cent of apprenticeship training is provided in the workplace by employers on the job. The remainder involves classroom instruction on theory conducted at the CITC Facility.

History of Apprenticeship (taken from Wikipedia encyclopedia)
Apprenticeship training is the oldest method of education. The system of apprenticeship first developed in the later Middle Ages and came to be supervised by craft guilds and town governments. A master craftsman was entitled to employ young people as an inexpensive form of labour in exchange for providing formal training in a craft.  Most apprentices were males, but female apprentices can be found in a number of crafts associated with embroidery, silk-weaving etc. Apprentices were young (usually fourteen to twenty-one years of age) unmarried and would live in the master craftsman’s household. Most apprentices aspired to becoming master craftsmen themselves on completetionof their contract (usually seven years.)