The Construction Trades program provides students with hands-on construction experience as they participate in the completion of an off-site construction project. Students will spend the majority of their class time working in the shop at the job site.

• Learn the skills necessary to remodel, repair and maintain a home
• Explorer career, educational and employment opportunities including advanced placement in a construction-related apprenticeship program

What We Do

• Partner with educational and industrial institutions for advanced learning and employment opportunities
• Integrate skills needed in the workplace into classroom and laboratory instruction
• Participate in unique partnershps with Farmers Insurance, Heartland Habitat for Humanity, and the Builders Training Center

This program is available to students in their junior and/or senior year for three hours a day.

Career Opportunities

• An articulation agreement with the Western Training Facility and Regional Carpenters Council provides commercial apprenticeship opportunities in 13 skilled craft areas. Students entering a commercial apprenticeship receive preferential treatment and approximately 30 hours of college credit upon completion of specific apprenticeships.
• Residential construction opportunities are available through requests from area contractors representing all fields of residential construction from the foundation to the finish work, specialty areas, new construction and remodeling work.
• Become self-employed and own your own business.

Professional Organizations

• St. Louis - Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council
• Western Training Facility
• Associated General Contractors
• National Association of the Remodeling Industry
• Home Builders Association
• Heartland Habitat for Humanity
• McCown Gordon Construction
• Farmers Insurance

Student Organization

• SkillsUSA