Accelerated summer program, Construction Ready, prepares Georgia students for careers in construction. The new four-week training course teaches students constructions trades, learning skills such as "basic safety training, blueprint reading, how to use hand and power tools and even CPR." Students can earn up to eight credentials, a process that normally takes around eight months.
MGA student Victoria Miller joined the program in March.
"Miller is currently a student at Middle Georgia State University, so she'll balance a job with her coursework. The same is true for her classmate, JaQwon Fitzhugh, who recently graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta and will be a freshman at Clark Atlanta University in the fall. He found out about the program during a field trip to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where students met with people in the construction industry.
"'I was like, "I want to get into this," he said. 'I'm a real hands-on learner. If they teach me, it'll stick.'"
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