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AFO offers design education, scholarships, mentorships From elementary school through college, the Architecture Foundation of Oregon is teaching young people about design, engineering and construction through arts programming, environmental understanding, awareness of cultural links to history, understanding responsibility to the ...

Beaverton School District’s Summer Internship Program provides hands-on experience Erin Fintel was already interested in architecture as a possible major in college, but really had only a rough idea of what it is and what architects actually do. Thanks to ...

Toolbox introduces young people to bridge between art, careers in the trades After long days of helping to build the Rose Garden Arena, now the Moda Center, Seyona Belai relaxed by painting oil and canvas art of the tradespeople who ...

In advance of her October exhibition at Toolbox Gallery, where she will become the first craft trade professional to be featured, Liz Nichols sat down with Amaha Million, Toolbox’s Editorial and Storytelling lead, for a conversation about her path from ...

PCC Building Construction Technology program opens doors to careers Lonnie Lively wasn’t quite sure what she wanted her career to look like, but she knew that she could grow into the role as a construction project manager if given the ...

Workers give inside look at life in the trades Job title: Journeyman carpenter Years of work experience: 4-7 School/training program attended: Northwest College of Construction I’m a carpenter with a passion for building from the ground up. My career began ...

Nonprofit offers construction pathway for Portland-area youth By Hilary Dorsey For 30 years, Portland YouthBuilders has helped young people change their lives through education, vocational training, counseling, career development and long-term support. The mission of Portland YouthBuilders (PYB) is to ...

Trade association chapters hone youth outreach strategies to address workforce shortage By Scott Huish The construction industry’s workforce shortage already was a critical concern even before the pandemic, when the industry lost more than 1 million jobs and was set ...

By Chuck Slothower It wasn’t until graduate school that Portland developer Anyeley Hallová was exposed to real estate development as a career field. She wants to make sure that doesn’t happen to another generation of kids. Hallová, founder of the ...

By Melody Finnemore Andrew Colas, author of “A Kids Book About Construction” in partnership with Portland’s Colas Construction Inc., said he was inspired to write the book so that children and their parents could see the industry as he experienced ...