Participants will enjoy interactive exhibits, trade industry displays, and demonstration projects including hands-on activities. Supervised by construction professionals, students can operate heavy construction equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, bucket trucks, and crane simulators. Skilled trades people will demonstrate crafts such as bricklaying, concrete stamping, power sawing, drilling, tying rebar, carpentry, electrical splicing, and welding. Technology-based careers associated with construction, such as architecture, engineering, estimating, and surveying will also be interactive, with exhibits on the newest computer technology used in planning, designing, and constructing highways, bridges, and buildings.
Special Note to Guidance Counselors:
Though many of your students are college bound (some colleges will be exhibiting at Construction Career Day), this program will be an opportunity for you to gain insight to construction industry careers and help you provide options to students choosing alternatives to college.
We hope that Guidance Counselors will come and visit exhibits, have lunch, and learn about construction career opportunities with their students to learn about what is of most interest to them. Attendance at CCD will also help Guidance Counselors answer the students' follow-up questions regarding construction career opportunities.
Space is limited!!! It is important that you register your students early, as the school registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. (Sorry, we are all filled for this year)
Connecticut's Construction Career Day (CCD) is intended to allow high school juniors and seniors to explore the diverse and exciting career opportunities related to the commercial construction industry. Thousands of students from Connecticut have attended this event since its inception in 2002. This is a one-day program, held for two consecutive days. In total, approximately 500 students, 20 from each school, participate each day the event is held.
AGENDA (October 7 & 8, 2008)
Students are divided into two groups, the red hard hats and the blue hard hats. While one group enjoys outdoor activities, the other group is participating in the demonstrations, booths, and exhibits indoors.
| 8:30 to 9:00 AM | Students arrive and have orientation on buses. |
| 9:00 to 10:15 AM | Students visit indoor or outdoor exhibit areas, as directed. |
| 10:15 AM | Students at indoor exhibits have lunch (provided). |
| 10:30 AM | Students switch exhibit areas — example, indoor to outdoor. |
| 10:30 to 10:45 AM | Students from outside exhibits have lunch (provided). |
| 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Students visit indoor and outdoor exhibit areas, as directed. |
| 12:15 PM | Students begin to board buses. |
| 12:30 PM | Students return to schools. |
