LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The times are changing—the traditional college route post-high school is no longer the assured path to success it was once seen as.
Skilled trades may be a better option for many students, and Mills University Studies High School is giving them that alternative. The school now has a new Academy of Advanced Manufacturing and Construction that has really taken off.
The skilled trade taking center stage at the academy is welding. Mills has had a welding program for a couple of years, but it wasn’t until last year—when steel fabrication company Lexicon invested over a hundred thousand dollars in much-needed equipment—that it really came into its own…