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A man wearing glasses measures a window frame on a plywood wall in a workshop, with tools and materials on a nearby workbench. Another person works in the background.

Focus on Careers: Residential Building Construction

There are more than 141,000 construction-related jobs in Wisconsin, with many of them supporting the residential construction industry. One could argue that no workers are more prepared to enter the workforce than students who graduate from FVTC’s Residential Building Construction program. Students are working with tools within the first week of class, and they build

What’s Now: Career Building

Fall 2015 One grad nails down a great career with a premier home builder. Spencer Collin found the perfect career while in high school. The 19-year-old New Franken native first heard about Fox Valley Technical College’s Residential Building Construction program while attending Luxemburg-Casco High School. “I always liked building things,” he says. “After hearing about the program,

High School Students Experience Woodworking Careers

High school students from around Wisconsin got a glimpse this week of career opportunities in wood manufacturing technology and residential building construction at our S.J. Spanbauer Center in Oshkosh. Oshkosh Northwestern: story, video & photo gallery >>