The push to increase public awareness about the demand for trained workers and encourage students to consider career and technical education is growing. At the state level, Governor Herbert declared 2018 as the ‘Year of Technical Education,’ part of the Talent Ready Utah initiative, which will focus on making technical education programs more accessible to students, strengthening partnerships with industry, and creating stackable degree options that allow students to transfer seamlessly from high school to a technical college, then to university if they choose to pursue a degree.