CT trade school graduates starting careers in HVAC [Video]

ANSONIA, CT (WFSB) – College students will head back to school very soon, but this week Eyewitness News is profiling other teenagers who are already joining the work force and earning good money thanks to Connecticut technical high schools.

Channel 3 met a young woman who is making cold hard cash by helping people stay cool.

“I think that was my best one yet!” said Ava Tamburrino.

The best is yet to come for Tamburrino. She is fired up about her future after graduating from Emmett O’Brien Technical High School in Ansonia.

“I always knew that I was a hands-on kid instead of a sit down in a classroom kind of learning kid,” Tamburrino said.

Tamburrino is one of two women in her class who focused on a career in the HVAC industry.

“We do electrical we do pipe work we do air duct,” Tamburrino said. “We are like the …