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Teamsters Local Union 456 of Elmsford, NY arrived with a truck-cab simulator for students to explore indoors and heavy-duty dump trucks parked outside with drivers to discuss career opportunities.
Ryan Brawitsch, a plumber pipefitter apprentice at Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 21 in Peekskill, guides high school student Loryn Riker, 18, on how to torque a pipe flange, which is used in many pipe-fitting processes.
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Brendan Rotermund, 19, a senior from Middletown, NY, receives instruction from Laborers Local 60 training instructor Jeff Black, left, and Local 60 organizer Dwayne Farquharson, with the confined-space tripod — actual equipment used in Laborers Local 60’s confined- space training class offered at its apprenticeship training center in Brewster, NY.
Opposite page, top: Apprentice instructors introduced students to a future of new technology that requires technical training and advanced skills as the building trades evolve from blue collar to new collar.
Opposite page, bottom: A high school senior receives pointers in masonry from Apprenticeship Instructor Ronald Jean of Bricklayers Union Local 1 at the 24th annual Hudson Valley Construction Career Day in Rockland County. More than 700 students from 34 schools attended the expo on April 12 at Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY.
