Port of Los Angeles High School

Welding, Construction, Automotive and Mobile Training

Learn Introductory and Advanced Skilled Trades in Welding, Construction and Automotive Technology

POLAHS partners with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor to offer a series of ambitious skilled trade training programs in welding, construction technology and automotive technology. Students earn valuable industry-based credentials.

In addition to hands-on training, students receive career mentoring, support and resources through the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor’s Career Bound program and POLAHS’ Post-Grad Career Success Academy. Recent graduates receive intensive training to prepare them for the workforce. 

“If you learn how to weld, you can own a company, you can be a contractor, you can be a foreman.’’

Pam Richardson, welding instructor, Port of Los Angeles High School

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The Impact

$1,000,000

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Past Prize Winners

More than 100 teachers across the U.S. have been awarded the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Let’s Build It

Let’s Build It is a convening of prizewinning teachers designed to produce valuable and inventive ideas that could dramatically improve skilled trades education in U.S. public high schools. No related content needed. This will feed in and you will have the opportunity to override during pre launch review.