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May 17, 2006

Update: An uplifting time at construction career fair / Photo

Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Pam Emery, left, and Stephanie Coro, both 10th graders at North Providence High School, get a lift today at the construction fair. Other students drove machinery, such as bulldozers, rollers, escavators, used jackhammers and more at the DOT maintenance facility in Coventry

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is giving high school students a chance today and tomorrow to explore the construction trade at a hands-on career fair.

More than 1,200 high school juniors and seniors from 50 area schools can operate bucket trucks, drive forklifts, build toolboxes and design virtual bridges at the 6th annual Construction Career Days, sponsored by RIDOT and the Federal Highway Administration. Students have registered in advance for the career fair, according to DOT spokeswoman Heidi Cote.

The career fair is now over for today, but continues tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at RIDOT’s midstate maintenance facility in Coventry.

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 4:35 PM | Permalink

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