BYC Construction Career Outreach Goes Virtual: Is Your Company Ready? Despite the COVID-19 health crisis preventing the majority of hands-on career exploration activities in schools last year, it is now more important than ever for the construction industry to ramp up virtual boots on the ground outreach efforts to effectively and safely provide students with comprehensive construction career awareness opportunities. The …
BYC Trains Over 100 Ambassadors How to Conduct Virtual Construction Outreach at Recent Summits Build Your Career recently hosted our last of two virtual Ambassador Summit meetings for 2020. Almost 100 BYC Ambassadors representing 42 Carolinas AGC member companies and over a dozen industry partners attended these online meetings to learn how they can continue safely and virtually promoting construction …
BYC Dec ’19 Contractors in the Classroom Profile: A Year in Review The Build Your Career “Contractors in the Classroom” program is designed to place our BYC Ambassadors directly in schools throughout the Carolinas region. The goal of this program is to educate students, their parents and teachers on the many amazing benefits of pursuing a career in the construction …
My Fellow BYC Ambassadors and CAGC Members,The summer season is is quickly nearing its end and before we know it, school will be back in session. Now is the perfect time to begin planning your Contractors in the Classroom visits for the Fall 2019 school semester! Over this past year, BYC has been building relationships with K-12 schools and their …
Carolinas AGC President & CEO, Dave Simpson, got to spend the day working at Young & McQueen Grading Company! (Check out the video evidence here) The agenda for the day included Dave Simpson, and BYC Director, Tammy Ford, arriving at the Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministry (ABCCM) building site on June 5th after the Western District Luncheon held earlier that day. …
Carolinas AGC President & CEO, Dave Simpson, got to spend the day working at Wayne Brothers! (Check out the video evidence here) The agenda for the day included Dave and BYC Director, Tammy Ford, arriving bright and early at the WB Corporate office in Davidson, NC where they were both greeted by Keith Wayne, President & CEO of Wayne Brothers, …
The summer season is upon us and it’s time to enjoy being outdoors on the weekends with friends and family, sporting your flip flops, and relaxing with cool drinks at the end of our hot Southern days. Now that school is out, it’s also the perfect opportunity to begin thinking about and planning your Contractors in the Classroom visits for …
This month’s BYC “Spotlight Series” shines on CT Wilson, Carolinas AGC members since 1955. CT Wilson, founded in Durham, NC in 1952, is a third-generation, family-owned commercial general contracting firm and provides construction services throughout the state, with offices in Durham and Greensboro, North Carolina. Since it was founded, CT Wilson has been deeply involved in countless community-based outreach initiatives …
Build Your Career is pleased to announce our first inaugural BYC Ambassador of the Month for June, 2019. A hearty congratulations goes out to Contract Construction’s Dr. Meghan Ketterman! Meghan not only serves as a CAGC Foundation Board Trustee, but she is also a very active Build Your Career Ambassador. Meghan is also the driving force behind leading classroom presentations …
If you weren’t at the 98th Annual CAGC Convention down in Charleston earlier this year, then you truly missed out. Dave Simpson, President & CEO of CAGC (and our fearless leader), was auctioned off to the highest bidders in a huge fundraising effort to benefit the Build Your Career workforce development initiative! The evening began with the help of Marty …
