The OSU forest machine apprenticeship program (FMAP) is designed to provide workforce development opportunities for undergraduate forestry students. The goal of this program is to provide students with forest machine operation experience that will support them in their future forestry careers. Additional goals for this program are to provide industry supporters with trained employees, to foster collaboration between OSU Forest Engineering and logging contractors, and to develop a forest machine training program at the OSU Mechanized Harvesting Laboratory. In this program students will be assigned an industry mentor. The students will progress through a training program using the OSU harvest machine simulators. The simulator training will be managed by Dr. Lyons, and the industry mentors will work with the student for one 2 hour session every two weeks. Depending on student and mentor schedules, the mentors will also attempt to provide field visits to active sites and to introduce the students to the machines. Separate from FMAP there may be opportunities for summer employment with the participating industry mentors; however, this will be up to the student and mentor to negotiate. The student apprentices will help run the Oregon Logging Conference high school simulator program (Feb 21-23, 2024). The student apprentices may also have opportunities to work at other simulator workshops that we offer for high schools and industry.