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BUILDING PEOPLE

Rosendin continues to build connections with students “I don’t really want to be a person Rosendin Electric BIM modeler Brandon
Knowledge about different options is with a lot of debt when you get out Penney demonstrates the use of
key, Sharber said. of college,” Carlos said as he passed a augmented reality goggles during a
community. And two is getting people Participants are also involved in their pair of augmented reality goggles to a School to Career event for high school
interested in coming back to Rosendin respective school’s construction or “If they come in once, great. If they fellow student. “I wanted to come here students at the firm’s Hillsboro shop
or into our industry to help fill that CTE (career and technical education) come in twice, you know you’ve got because it always seemed interesting and office.
void we’re experiencing right now. The programs. Some were first-time someone who is interested,” he said. to me, and I wanted to learn important
schools can’t do it alone.” attendees and others have attended “What it speaks to me is exposure. skills because you never know when He pointed at a semi-enclosed space
s the shortage of labor in the previous Rosendin events. That’s the in, that they know it exists.” you’ll need them in life. And now I containing metal-stud framing, conduit,
skilled trades persists, some Approximately 20 students from figure that if I do an apprenticeship I receptacles and other items.
Acontractors are increasing their Glencoe, Liberty and Century high “I think the most encouraging thing is That’s certainly the case for Aloha High won’t have any debt.”
engagement with the next generation schools as well as Aloha High School in seeing the recurrence of the same kids School senior Juan Carlos, “This whole setup is a mock-up of one
poised to enter the workforce. These the Beaverton School District recently who are interested,” he said. “Some who attended a Rosendin of the rooms at Sherwood High School,”
companies are seeking to cultivate spent two full days learning career he said.
connections with students by showing skills such as basic wiring, estimating,
them in person peeks at careers in the project management, building Through the augmented reality goggles,
building industry. Penney showed students how the same
layout could be viewed as a 3-D model.
Rosendin's team in the Hillsboro,
Oregon office is doing just that via the “Our best feedback is the hands-on
Hillsboro Chamber’s School to Career portions out in the lab,” Sharber said.
program. In cooperation with the “So we’re looking at opportunities to
Hillsboro School District, Rosendin has expand it.”
developed a two-day program that The goal, Rosendin business
brings high school students to the shop development manager Courtney Hron
for exploration of the electrical trade.

said, is to inform students of career
choices they may not have known
are showing up because it’s something previously.
different, but we see the spark every Rosendin volunteers, including BIM
“It’s really worked two-fold for us,” information modeling, engineering, time. They may not be climbing all over event for the first time. None of his modeler Brandon Penney, showed “It’s getting them in here and getting
said Zach Sharber, Rosendin’s quality pre-fabrication, and more. Further, they us to get information today, but it’s in family members work in construction; Carlos and other students how the tools them to understand that once they
assurance and commissioning program also gained insight about the soft skills there. And I guarantee that this summer he learned about the event from a of the trade work. go through that they have an option,”
manager for the Pacific Northwest. - interviewing, resume building, fitness, they will be looking at the things we teacher. He’s been impressed with the “We do this with a lot of schools,” she said. “They can bounce around
“One is being a good partner in our and more that are important in the talked about.” instruction so far, he said. Penney said. wherever they want to be.”
community – we’re part of the Hillsboro construction industry.
By Josh Kulla | Reprint from DJC Oregon

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