Construction Science Expo

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Tuesday, May 7m 2024
9:00am – 2:00pm

Rotating locations

About The Conference Event

The Annual Construction Science Expo is a component of the school-based “Navigation to Success Program”; the largest Life Skills program in Michigan. Attending students must complete 15 evidence-based Life Skills modules, pledge to be drug and violence free and engage in either a “Safe Routes”, “Drug Free Homes” or “Healthy Arts (poetry, spoken word, dramatic, drawing or painting) Community Service Exercise. Attendance at the Expo while exposing students to craft and career opportunities also qualifies them for potential Summer Employment, Co-op employment opportunities and merit-based college scholarships.

1. WHO WE SERVE?

The Black Caucus Foundation Adolescent Development Programs provide a full range of healthy lifestyle and positive life pursuit opportunities for Detroit students, and minority and disadvantaged children throughout Michigan.

2. What We Do?

The Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan is a public policy research, advocacy and direct service nonprofit organization committed to the creation and maintenance and improvement of strategies and initiatives that improve the opportunity, life quality and circumstances of minority and disadvantaged populations.

3. THE ORGIN OF THE EXPO

The Construction Science Expo event is a “School to Work Program” made available to Detroit students that pledge to be drug and violence free and complete all 15 “Navigation to Success” Life Skill Modules facilitated throughout Detroit Middle and High Schools by the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan

Activities

Industry Professionals

Students Invited

Event Sponsors

EVENTS TIMELINE

Conference Schedule

SKILLS

LIST OF SKILLS THAT WILL DEMONSTRATED

Civil Engineering Skills
Land Surveying Skills
Excavation Skills
Road & Bridge Design
Project Management Skills
Heavy Machine Operation Skills
Carpentry Skills
Hauling & Trucking Skills
Demolition Skills
Horticulture & Landscape Skills
Pre, Post and Project Labor Skills
Traffic Management Skills
Electric Wiring Skills
Cement Production Skills
Asphalt Production Skills
Brick Masonry Skills
Utility Location Skills
Power Distribution
Maintenance Skills
…and more

SKILLS

Chairman KB Stallworth

BCF Co-Founder & Retired Utility Services of America CEO

When we began this effort, vocational education in Detroit was considered a path for the non-academic student. Today, the skilled labor workforce gap has made craft wages highly competitive and careers a coveted option.

Professor Nicole T. Stallworth

Michigan Black Caucus of MI (BCF)

Operations & Training Executive

Whether it’s engineering, whether it’s skill trades, there are shortages across the board. We have to get young people excited so that they can continue to live that American DREAM.

Mayor Mike Duggan

City of Detroit

Skill trades is like college without the debt. You can make a great living and have a great career. You can ultimately own your own contracting company.