400 TEENS GET HANDS-ON INTRODUCTION
TO APPRENTICESHIPS AND CONSTRUCTION CAREERS
MATC, MABA & Building Trades Target Youth at Outreach Event for Home Products Show
WHAT: “Building a Career” event, including interactive demonstrations with high school students, for 9 construction and building-related careers. Sponsored by Madison Area Technical College (MATC), the Madison Area Builders Association (MABA), and local building and construction trades to interest high school students and youth in building-related and construction careers. It is designed as an outreach event of MABA’s 2007 Home Products Show being held March 2-4.
WHO: 400 teens and high school teachers from 15 area high schools and youth organizations
Speaker, MATC President Bettsey L. Barhorst
MATC faculty, craftworkers and professionals from the building trades will meet with groups of students to discuss and demonstrate these construction fields: electrical, plumbing, sheet metal, steamfitting, bricklaying, painting and decorating, architecture, residential and commercial building.
WHEN: Friday, March 2
9 a.m.-noon - Construction Careers Break-Out Sessions with Hands-On Activities
WHY: We need young people to consider careers in construction because:
- Nearly 1,000,000 new construction jobs are projected through 2012
- There is a shortage of construction workers now
- Construction careers are varied, rewarding and challenge the mind and hands
- On average, MATC’s apprenticeship graduates earn more than $50,000 per year
WHERE: MATC Commercial Avenue Education Center Apprenticeship Center, (octagon in main building and assigned classrooms), 2125 Commercial Ave., Madison WI (across from Oscar Mayer at Packers Ave.)
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