Welcome to the Hudson Valley Construction Career Day website.  Information on our 2008 event can be found below:

Date:  Friday, April 4th, 2008 

Venue:  Rockland Community College Fieldhouse
and Grounds - Suffern, NY

Time:  9:00AM - 3:00PM

WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

Construction Career Day is about youth, the construction industry, and the future. 

Today's high school students represent the pool of workers from which the construction industry will recruit its future workforce.  Construction Career Day will exposse high school students and educators to the rewarding and diverse careers in the industry.

The construction industry is facing a severe shortage of skilled workers.  If not addresse, the shortage will increase, affecting quality, safety and the industry's ability to build the infrastructure needed by a growing nation.  Construction Career Day is designed to educate our youth about a friendly, professional industry that cares about them and their future.

Our future depends on more and better trained service technicians, certified mechanics, equipment operators, skilled craftspeople, superintendents, civil engineers, architects, constrution managers, surveyors, welders and more.  The construction industry is booming.  We need new talent to build the highways, utilities, hospitals, schools, office complexes and homes for our growing population. 

HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES

• Building a Brick Wall
• Framing a Structure
• Wiring a Circuit
• Cutting Ceramic Tile
• Bending Steel

PRESENTATIONS & DEMONSTRATIONS

• Experienced workers will present information about apprenticeship programs and career opportunities in their trade.
  
  
• On display will be tools, materials, videos, brochures, photographs, etc., depicting the work of the trades.
  
  
• Human Resources personell from local contractors and other construction-related employers will discuss the jobs and career paths available in their companies.
  
  
• Skilled tradespeople will demonstrate crafts such as laying bricks, cutting and setting tile, bending steel, making plaster molding, plumbing, roofing, carpentry, painting, etc.
  
  
• Seasoned operators will show their skill with heavy equipment.