Linn-Mar students practicing construction skills with ‘job site’ training amidst labor shortage

MARION, Iowa (KCRG) – Linn-Mar High School students don’t just get to weld inside the school’s shop or draft blueprints in the engineering lab – they are working right outside the front entrance on a real building.

Students in one of the district’s residential construction classes are learning hands-on by turning a metal container building into a construction site office for ESCO Electric.

The company is providing the materials for the course project…

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