BERLIN, CT (WFSB) – Channel 3 is your back to school authority and we know that very soon college students will return to their classrooms and lecture halls.

But this week we are profiling other teenagers who are already joining the workforce and making good money thanks to Connecticut technical high schools.

“This part can turn on its side and that side so we can do machining on other surfaces.”

In many ways this is Alan Ortner’s classroom.

After working here as an employee for years, Ortner purchased Sirois Tool, a manufacturing company in Berlin that makes precision parts like…