Approximately 500 high school students from around the region descended on Camp Withycombe on Friday to learn about careers in the skilled trades while working apprentices engaged in competition.
The Associated Builders and Contractors‘ Pacific Northwest chapter hosted the 11th annual Craft Championships at the Oregon National Guard base southeast of Portland. The event doubles as a career fair for teenagers interested in the trades, and as a contest for experienced apprentices to demonstrate their skills in sheet metal fabrication and heating and cooling construction…