Interactive Simulations for Enhanced Trade Skills Training
SkillMill, through Interplay Learning, offers interactive, hands-on simulations that provide a safe, affordable, and convenient training platform to boost trade skills competency, build classroom confidence, reduce administrative tasks, and effectively teach the digital generation anytime and anywhere.
Overview
SkillMill provides a safe, affordable, and convenient training format that allows your team to train anytime, anywhere.
Key Benefits
- Boost competency with real-world experiences
- Build confidence in the classroom
- Reduce your administrative burden
- Teach trade skills to the digital generation
Interplay Learning offers interactive, hands-on simulations designed to enhance trades curriculum and support effective skills training for students.
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3D & VR Sim-Based Training for Students
Interplay Learning provides online, on-demand 3D simulation and virtual reality training for skilled trades students, offering industry-aligned courses and certifications across various trades, enabling flexible, safe practice environments, curriculum integration, progress tracking, and proven success in preparing students for workforce readiness as endorsed by educators and employers.
SkillMill Immersive Training Platform
The SkillMill Immersive Training Platform, now rebranded as the Interplay Career Development Platform, offers over 500 hours of expert-driven, scalable, and science-based immersive training courses and simulations for skilled trades such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliances, enabling businesses, educators, and workforce programs to efficiently upskill their teams with advanced hands-on learning technology previously reserved for elite professions, all managed through a user-friendly platform designed to accelerate workforce development and improve real-world problem-solving skills.
Interplay Enterprise: Career Development Platform for Enterprises
Interplay Enterprise is a career development platform offering immersive, hands-on skilled trades training and centralized management tools that help enterprises upskill employees, improve retention, reduce callbacks, and drive measurable business results through customizable learning paths, actionable insights, and automation, as demonstrated by success stories from companies like Willow Bridge, Southern Home Services, and JC Hart Co.
Facebook's VR Impact on Skilled Trades Training
Facebook's rebranding to Meta and its $10 billion investment in VR and the metaverse underscore the growing importance of virtual reality as a transformative tool for educational and vocational training, particularly addressing the critical labor shortages and declining enrollment in skilled trades programs amid an aging workforce.
Learn Skilled Trades on the Go with Interplay's Tablet App
Interplay Learning’s tablet app, available on Apple and Android stores, offers video courses, learning paths, skills assessments, and 3D simulations across various trades such as residential and commercial HVAC, plumbing, solar, and maintenance, enabling users to develop and review technical skills conveniently from their mobile devices.
Workforce Development Programs and Skilled Trades Careers
Workforce development programs are crucial in addressing the U.S. skilled labor shortage—particularly in trades like construction, plumbing, and HVAC—by providing flexible, technology-enhanced training opportunities that enable individuals to enter well-paying middle-class careers, with many new skilled trade workers earning at least $50,000 annually despite common misconceptions about low earning potential.