For Prospective Students
Six Months to a Real Career
BSA trains motivated adults to become job-ready residential electricians and plumbers — real skills, real careers, right in your community. AI-proof work that keeps the lights on and the water running.
The Opportunity
What This Program Can Do for You
BSA's six-month apprenticeship-style program teaches you the complete first-year residential curriculum in electrical or plumbing. You'll learn from retired field experts in small groups of three — not from a textbook, and not in a crowded lecture hall.
When you graduate, you'll be the kind of apprentice a licensed contractor can hire and put straight to work on day one. No college debt. No two-year wait. Just real skills — wiring houses, fixing leaks, building careers — learned hands-on from people who spent decades doing this work.
These are AI-proof skills. No algorithm replaces the person who runs wire through a finished wall or solders a copper joint under a kitchen sink. The trades are growing faster than the workforce that fills them — and BSA puts you at the front of that line.
Target tuition is $2,500 for the entire program — a fraction of what trade schools charge.
What We Expect
This Program Is for Serious Adults
BSA's pilot program has limited availability. For the first two years, we can only accept a small number of students per trade, per cycle. That means every seat matters — and we need students who are fully committed to making the most of this opportunity.
What We're Looking For
- Adults who are serious about completing the full six-month program — not just trying it out
- People who show up on time, every session, ready to learn and work
- A mature, professional attitude — you'll be working with tools, electricity, and water systems in close quarters with an instructor and two other students
- Respect for the instructor's time and knowledge — these are retired professionals volunteering their expertise
- Willingness to be taught, corrected, and held to a standard — this is how the trades work
- An understanding that completing this program means earning it, not just attending it
We're not looking for perfection. We're looking for commitment. If you've been wanting to get into the trades but didn't have a path — this could be it. But only if you're ready to treat it like the career opportunity it is.
How It Works
Simple, Structured, Hands-On
3.5 Hours, 3 Days a Week — for 6 Months
Sessions are structured to fit around life. Intensive enough to learn fast, flexible enough to manage. That's roughly 45 instructional hours per month — all of it hands-on, none of it sitting in a lecture hall.
3 Students Per Instructor
You won't get lost in a class of 30. Every student gets direct, personal instruction from a retired field expert.