Trailblazing Stoughton senior trains to be steamfitter

A Stoughton senior is among a small number of girls training to be a welder as part of the Youth Apprenticeship program managed by the Dane County Schools Consortium, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

Jordan Bittrick, 17, a senior at Stoughton High School, is working at Stoughton Trailers. She is the only girl in her advanced auto class and one of two in an advanced welding class.

Bittrick, who hopes to become a steamfitter, says her fellow employees don’t treat her differently because of her gender.

“It’s not like, ‘Oh you are a woman, you can’t do this.’ So this is what is really nice about that environment, they all support me,” she told the newspaper

Her interest in welding comes from her family. Her great-grandfather, Ken Spink, of McFarland, was a welder and her father, David Bittrick, works in construction.

“At a young age, I always hung out with him,” she said of her father. “I worked on cars and helped him fix things.”

Read the full story at the newspaper’s website.

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