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Ontario Free Resources for Educators

Engage students with free Ontario-based career exploration resources.

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Skilled Trades Toolkits

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Industrial

Discover resources to inspire, inform, and connect the next generation of industrial professionals.

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Construction

Engaging stories to promote careers that build and shape our communities.

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Motive Power

Guides to showcase careers in the trades that keep our world moving.

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Service

Tools to help share, promote, and recruit the next generation of service industry professionals.

OUR GOALS

Inspire Learning with Digital Badges & Prizes

Incentivize career exploration for your students with career stories of apprentices and skilled trades professionals from across Ontario. Earn badges and be entered into the monthly prize draw to win cool tech!

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Watch Stories

Showcase Ontario’s skilled trades and highlight diverse career journeys through engaging videos.

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Play Games

Choose a campaign and explore careers through interactive challenges.

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Earn Badges

Complete activities to earn digital badges and qualify for monthly prize draws.

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Free Career Posters

Sign up to receive your FREE posters to inspire your students. Spark curiosity in the top 5 in-demand industries and empower students on their career exploration journey to watch real-life stories of apprentices who have launched rewarding careers in the skilled trades. Display them in schools, classrooms, hallways, and cafeterias to spread the excitement.

ESTABLISH THE PROBLEM

Bring 360° Skilled Trades Experiences to Your Students

Connect your students with immersive career exploration at live events across Ontario.

The Edge Factor crew guides learners through 360° virtual reality stories featuring real professionals - from Millwrights and Bakers to Construction Equipment Operators - offering a realistic glimpse into life in the skilled trades.

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This Employment Ontario project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.

TESTIMONIALS

What People
Are Saying

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This platform has become an essential resource for our educators and students, allowing them to explore and share content in classrooms, at events, and in their homes. We particularly value the tools Edge Factor has created to promote the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), Specialist High Skills Major (SHSM), and careers in the skilled trades.

Dave Eelkema

OYAP Recruiter

Grand Erie District School Board

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These videos have been a fantastic resource in providing students with a realistic understanding of the skilled trades and the competencies required to succeed in these fields.

Cebert Adamson

Dean

Mohawk College

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The multimedia content created by Edge Factor, including local stories that feature Indigenous individuals and women in trades, has been invaluable. This content highlights real-life success stories of graduates and professionals in skilled trades, fostering greater interest and engagement among our students.

Alex Harris

OYAP/SHSM/SCWI

Renfrew County District School Board

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Through our partnership with Edge Factor, we’ve created inspiring content that helps students and job-seekers explore careers and build in-demand skills. Together, we’re helping people unlock their potential and imagine brighter futures.

Kate O’Neil

Vice President

Skills Council of Canada

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Skills Ontario is proud to stand beside Edge Factor as Premium Partners. Our teams have worked closely together on sustainable projects that live on and on, continuing to inspire audiences to get involved and launch training and career pathways into the trades, and we have experienced success after success.

Ian Howcroft

CEO

Skills Ontario

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Edge Factor is an exciting initiative that will provide our residents with access to explore and connect to essential training and career opportunities in skilled trades.

Sandra Easton

Mayor

Town of Lincoln

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