HARRIS, MI— The Upper Peninsula Construction Council has announced a program that will mix high school and the construction trades.
“Construction Connect UP” is a collaboration with the council’s signatory contractors and UP Building Trades Unions, UP Michigan Works, the Delta-Schoolcraft and Dickinson-Iron ISDs, and MARESA. Under the program, qualified high school seniors attend school in the mornings, then spend their afternoons working, learning, and earning on job sites.
CCUP is operating as a pilot program for the second semester of this school year, with three students from Escanaba and one student from Kingsford. In May, students who successfully complete the program may be “drafted” into building trades apprenticeships.
A full program will follow for the 2023-24 school year.
