Central Ohio Women in the Trades

What a beautiful day for a parade!! Many, many thanks to our founders for coordinating, those who contributed and everybody who showed up! Happy Pride Month! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈🏳️‍🌈🧰💪☀️🍬🍭🎉

Ibew ladies standing with PRIDE

Central Ohio Women in the Trades invite all our construction families and supporters to join us in this year's Stonewall Columbus Pride March!
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Chrissy and Kenzie represented the trades at Career Day for Blendon Middle School this week. We love an opportunity to inspire kids and show them that everybody can! 🚧🏗️🧰🛠️🔧🔨🗜️🪚🪛📐

I must give credit where it's due. Jill is the mastermind behind the games at these events. 🧠 Here are some clips from the "caution mummy" race! ⚠️ Winners received a prize which included lottery tickets. 🤑

hosted a Tradeswomen Meet-Up on May 5th to discuss future goals for our group, ourselves and Tradeswomen altogether. We greatly appreciate the support and encouragement from Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT) in making this event complete. Many thanks to Plumbers & Pipefitters LU 189 for the donation of their hall. We hope everybody had fun, made connections and received insight that day. We know we did! Looking forward to seeing you all again (and hopefully meeting new faces) at future events!

If you'd like us to add any of your own photos, feel free to drop them in the comments. Don't forget to reach out if you are interested in helping with future talks, meet-ups and other events. Thank you all for your support!
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This is such a cool program!

! Sign up to attend the Ohio Women & Skilled Trades Summit June 9th in Hotel information is posted. Excited to be building on the CLUW [Labor Union Women] event on Friday & Saturday. Great weekend! Join us!

A wonderful place to get your plants and socialize with like gardened people!

It's coming ... mark your calendars and make a day of it!

Big BIG Collaborative Plant Sale!
May 18 & 19 at the Urban Farm Church
Native plants, unique veggies and herbs, trees, shrubs, perennials, and MORE
* Multiple vendors will be selling their best and brightest plants -- THIS is the sale for fun and unusual plant varieties! *

Starts at 11 AM • tons of free parking
3901 Maize Road, Columbus OH 43224
(between E. Cooke and N. Broadway)

VENDORS include ...
City Folks Farm Shop
Sunbury Urban Farms
Columbus Garden School
Sweet Fire Nursery
Columbus Foodscapes
Urban Farm Church.. and more vendors are added daily!

Special shout out to Outreach Specialist and plumbing instructor Stacie Alexander because it's her birthday today!! We appreciate all that you do, not just for COWIT, but for tradeswomen all around.

Just this past year, Stacie organized a Diversity Committee within her hall and has already had a few successful projects! Happy birthday, Stacie!! 🧁🎈🎁👷🏻‍♀️🚧🧰

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Starts at 4pm come check us out

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Last week, SkillsUSA Ohio hosted their annual competition of skilled trades and more at the Convention Center. Many tradespeople were there volunteering their time as judges, helpers and more. Mary Nutter with Plumbers & Pipefitters LU 189 arranged an all woman team of judges for the plumbing contest. We just wanted to showcase such a unique moment! 👷🏻‍♀️🚧🏗️🧰🛠️👩🏻‍🔧🪠🚽

Seats are selling quickly!

This workshop focuses on plumbing in the home: how to maintain your house and how to expand on what you already have.

www.columbusgardenschool.com/service-page/plumbing-workshop-for-women-1

This hands-on workshop has a strong emphasis on safety and will cover:

- Building an understanding of how your plumbing system works

- Learning techniques such as using Sharkbites to repair your copper pipes

- Understanding the importance of correct ventilation

- Taking apart a toilet tank and different types of faucets to build a better foundation for troubleshooting

Each workshop begins with an introduction to the appropriate tools, and you'll go home with plenty of resources to help further your understanding! The goal of this workshop is to build a comfort level with the systems in your own home and to help you make informed decisions when talking with a contractor. All skill levels are encouraged.

Happiest of birthdays to our fabulously skilled and skillfully fabulous carpenter, Sarah! 🎈🎂🎁🤩🪚🔨👷🏻‍♀️

A super happy birthday to our one and only Joy Merryman!!

Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT) has partnered with Jobs for the Future to launch a webinar for Women's History Month highlighting the Tradeswomen Building Infrastructure Initiative. We would love to have you all tune in on March 28, 2024 at 2-3pm EST!

Advancing Women in the Construction Industry Tradeswomen Building Infrastructure Initiative