Front Range Community College is partnering with state and local maintenance agencies to offer a high school internship program that develops qualified public works candidates. Until w, your candidate pool probably had little or kwledge about the work they will do or how it will get done. Our high school internship program starts with two weeks of OSHA-10 training and certification in construction or general industry. This is followed by 13 weeks of Highway 101—Introduction to Maintenance Operations, which is the revised version of our degree program course. Then students participate in a paid internship at a state or local facility for six–eight weeks, which could lead to full-time employment upon successful completion of the program. The students earn six college credits towards their associate’s degree if they continue. Classes are currently held in real-time-remote (Zoom) format, and the model is flexible to accommodate other delivery methods. This program is for n-college track seniors in their graduating semester. It allows them to gain full-time employment immediately upon graduation, and allows agencies to hire local, youthful, and kwledgeable employees.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be better able to:
• Recognize the benefit of collaborating with their local high schools to provide career opportunities in public works/maintenance for graduates.
• Fill their vacancies with employees kwledgeable in preservation and preventive measures, asset management, traffic control, safety, etc.
• Support the members of their community by:
– Developing a kwledgeable workforce better able to serve them
– Providing long-term, full-time employment for their youth
– Engaging students in a career path they never knew existed

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