June 24, 2019 - Skills USA Championship Day Two
The masonry skills competition will have 14 post-secondary and 30 secondary students, for a total of 44 total masonry competitors! Above left: 300 Florida Skills students getting the information on the contest scheduled for Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky. Above right: Tenders from Florida Courtesy Core watching Ryan Shaver, NCMCA-MCAA, demonstrate the build on Thursday's contest project. For more information on Skills USA, please visit their website: https://www.skillsusa.org/competitions/skillsusa-championships/ FDC-VOCATIONAL TEACHER EJT- MASONRY/BRICK MASON INDUSTRY -70034597
FLORIDA STATE PRISON (FSP) Location: RAIFORD, FL, US, 32026 To Apply: https://bit.ly/2IHSPdC June 23, 2019 - Skills USA Championship Day One
The masonry skills competition will have 14 post-secondary and 30 secondary students, for a total of 44 total masonry competitors! For more information on Skills USA, please visit their website: https://www.skillsusa.org/competitions/skillsusa-championships/
Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor's degree. "All through my life it was, 'if you don't go to college you're going to end up on the streets,' " Morgan said. "Everybody's so gung-ho about going to college." So he tried it for a while. Then he quit and started training as an ironworker, which is what he is doing on a weekday morning in a nondescript high-ceilinged building with a concrete floor in an industrial park near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Morgan and several other men and women are dressed in work boots, hard hats and Carhartt's, clipped to safety harnesses with heavy wrenches hanging from their belts. They're being timed as they wrestle 600-pound I-beams into place. www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-paying-trade-jobs-sit-empty-while-high-school-grads-line-up-for-universityRead more > Tanner Brooks, a young concrete mason for an outfit based in the Phoenix area knows he has it good. Even as an apprentice, he's likely making more money than his former schoolmates and he has no student loan debt. He's also just 19 years old. "It allowed me to pay for my own vehicle, my own place to live, and I live comfortably," Brooks said. "I don't struggle all." He also didn't struggle to find his job. In fact, he says construction companies were calling him while he was in school, when he started working as an apprentice before he ever graduated. Numbers recently released by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) show the Phoenix metro area added nearly 14,000 construction jobs from March 2018 to March 2019. But it's not just Arizona -- it's nationwide. To read more, click here.
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