Construction Skills 2000 career day attracts employees of the future.One thousand New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. high-school students recently learned about jobs in the construction industry during a career day held at the Javits Center. The career day was organized by Construction skills 2000, a preparatory training course for high-school seniors which provides preferred access to union apprenticeship programs in the building and costruction trade industry. The students, ranging in age from 14 to 17, learned how to lay tile, build, plaster, and paint walls as they participated in hands-on demonstrations showcasing the various building trades. Construction Skills 2000 is sponsored by the Building and Construction Trades Council and the Building Trades Employers' Association. It is also supported by the Port Authority of NY/NJ NY/NJ New York/New Jersey , the NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City School Construction Authority, the NYC Department of Education, the NY Building Congress and the Consortium for Worker Education. New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein Joel I. Klein is Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States with over 1.1 million students in over 1,420 schools. joined BCTC BCTC British Columbia Transmission Corporation (public electric utility) BCTC British Columbia Treaty Commission BCTC Bluegrass Community and Technical College (Kentucky) BCTC Battle Command Training Center president Edward J. Malloy and BTEA BTEA Back to Education Allowance (Ireland) BTEA Block Tiny Encryption Algorithm president and chief executive officer Louis J. Coletti, to welcome the students and discuss career possibilities. "The construction industry has always provided people with the training and well-paying jobs that have been essential to expanding New York's middle class," said Diane Springer, Construction Skills 2000 director. "Through this career day, hundreds of students saw for themselves what the industry is all about and how they can be a part of it." |
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