In this episode, we talk with Mary Starr, Business Development Manager, with Shirley Contracting Company, and Mac Beaton, Director, Workforce & Career Development, HCPS. Out of high school and moving on to college, Mary was working toward a career as a physical therapist. As with many people, things happen and now she is working for a successful civil contractor in Virginia. Find out about her story and why Mac is back on the show on today’s podcast! You are going to love this episode.

In this episode, we talk with Courtney Baker, Director of Workforce Training with Associated General Contractors, and Taylor Brannon, Executive Vice President of F. Richard Wilton Contractor. Our discussion covered everything from the importance of Career and Technical Education for companies that hire trade specialists, managers, supervisors, engineers, and all the support staff needed to operate all types of contracting companies. A large part of the discussion is the need for high school and college graduates for their industries and how students can prepare for their future careers by attending Career and Technical Education programs while in middle and high school.

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In our latest episode we talked with several new Career and Technical Education teachers at this year’s New Teacher Academy. The discussion was about the importance of CTE teachers and career switchers getting into teaching CTE classes.

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ACE Center Automotive Tech Instructor, Mark Schultz, Automotive

In our latest episode, we are talking about everything automotive. We have ACE Center at Hermitage instructor, Mark Schultz, automotive apprentice with the Carter Myers Automotive (CMA), and graduate of the ACE Center Automotive Technology program, Quin McCarthy, Cory Dahl, CMA Service Manager, and Beth Lucchesi, Talent Acquisition Specialist with CMA. We talk about Quin’s journey from ACE Center student to his hiring by CMA and to his working to become a master automotive technician. It is a great story of hard work and great people helping him through his young life and preparing for his career.

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Recently we hosted Camp NAWIC, the National Association of Women

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Chief Clevert, Deputy Fire Chief at Henrico County Division

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First off, our podcast has been absent for a few weeks. Reshawn, my co-host and friend has moved to work in the private sector. He made this podcast what it is today. I have some big shoes to grow into and I will miss him. Good luck Reshawn!

Jason Gill and Jeff Lewis talk to us about their career paths leading up to their involvement in the fire suppression and prevention industry, working with our students at our Adult Education Center, and the career fair they recently hosted with our students.

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In our latest episode Jeffery Grow, Maintenance Control Supervisor with Henrico County Schools talks to us about his varied career path that started with photography, and the importance of the real-world education that occurs in CTE programs.

Today we talked with Connor Gentle and Sam Tignor, former ACE student in Precision Machinery, with Clark Construction, about careers in construction and the need for young people to decide to make lucrative and important careers in the construction industry. 

Clark Construction, website, career information.

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President of B&S Development, Anthony Forest, talks about his career path that took him from college to starting his own construction company in the middle of COVID.

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