Start taking steps towards your career now! Our high school districts offer programs for students wanting to learn the basic skills in construction. Graduates of these programs often take their skills and secure entry-level jobs in the construction industry, are priority enrolled in regional colleges, or join a local apprenticeship program.
If you’d like to take your schooling beyond high school, Rochester is home to some of the greatest educational institutes right in our back yard. With a wide range of programs- from certificates to two and four year programs - there are options to fit every person's needs.
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+ Eastern Monroe Career Center
EMCC offers a two-year program for high school students to learn the fundamentals of residential construction from footings to roof installation. First year students will focus on the principles and concepts of wall, floor and roof framing along with windows, doors, siding and roofing. Second year students will learn masonry including brick, block and foundation building. After a small foundation is constructed, students will frame a floor and complete the rough plumbing for a residential bathroom. Second year students will have the opportunity to participate in a paid cooperative, up to eight weeks, with a reputable construction company.
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+ Edison Tech
Students at Edison get hands on experience in every aspect of construction. Students will get chance to use not just hammers and nails but also programs like CAD that teach students not just how to build buildings but how to design them inside and out.
There is a lot more to construction than hammers and nails. There are many different careers available in this field from designing a house, to figuring out how to build it, to doing the construction, to making repairs. Many of the electricians, machinists, plumbers, and carpenters in this field are beginning to retire- leaving behind lots of job opportunities for recent graduates to fill.
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+ Genesee Valley BOCES
This program provides students with a background applicable to both residential and commercial construction. Students learn technical skills in specialized areas of carpentry and cabinet making, residential wiring, plumbing and heating. Training occurs in machine operations, test equipment, hand tools, portable and stationary power tools, pneumatic tools, rigging and OSHA Safety requirements.
Students build a house on site every year. This provides hands-on experience in residential framing, door and window hanging, electrical wiring, heating systems, plumbing, siding, roofing, dry wall installation, and interior/exterior trim. Blueprint reading, material codes and specifications are extensively taught. Cooperative work experiences and other work experience opportunities are also available. In addition, students will have the opportunity to produce group and individual woodworking projects, or to work in more advanced areas of the electrical or plumbing and heating trades.
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+ Monroe BOCES 2
In the Building Trades, students explore various entry level jobs in the facility maintenance and landscape management industries. They learn to use equipment related to interior and exterior maintenance and repair, as well as basic landscape management. The foundation of the Building Trades curriculum is career readiness and teaching students the transferable skills necessary to be successful in the working world.
Services and Trades programs provide students with activities designed to develop transferable skills, career planning and industry content. These courses are directly aligned to viable employment options and to the CDOS credential. Opportunities to earn work-based learning hours are infused within the curriculum. In order to support students with special needs, these courses have a classroom aide and smaller student-to-teacher ratios.
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+ Monroe Community College
MCC Corporate College offers technical training for construction workers, plumbers, electricians and other skilled-trade workers. If you’re currently participating in a registered apprenticeship program, you can earn credit through our training courses.
In addition to specific courses, MCC also offers a range of certificates and two-year degrees in the construction field.
Areas of study include: Air Conditioning Technology: Heating and Ventilation; Computer Aided Design and Drafting, Construction Technology; Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning; Skilled Trades; and Welding.
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+ Alfred State
The Building Trades Department is composed of four programs: building construction; heavy equipment operations; masonry; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Rewarding careers in the construction industry are open to students graduating from the building trades programs. With the continual development of new building methods and materials, the craftsperson finds it necessary to keep abreast of these developments. Construction, as in many other occupations, is becoming a field of specialists. Coupled with hands-on experience working at off-campus construction sites, the programs provide the necessary theory as well as instruction in blueprint reading, cost and materials, estimating, safety, and the use of newly developed equipment and materials.
Alfred also offers Electrical Trades programs and Construction Management and Technology programs.
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