Thompson isn’t the only City that has a trades and technologies camp offered to high school students this summer.

Jobs and Economy Minister Kevin Chief says the province is funding 9 trades and technologies camps throughout the province: "In the next ten years there’s going to be a demand for 12,000 jobs in the construction field alone, so we have a stronger economy and that leads to a demand for high skilled jobs. So we wanna make sure, we know we can meet that demand because we have a very young and fast growing demographic, we have a very young indigenous population, we have new Canadians".

Chief said these camps will spark the interest of young Manitobans in a career in the skilled trades. Last year was a pilot project for the program.