Henrico Schools' summer program fosters student passion - and job offers

In the middle of July, you will find most kids relaxing and enjoying the sun, sleeping in on a hot day and then cooling off at the pool with their friends. But at the Highland Springs Advanced Career Education Center, about two dozen high-schoolers are suited up each weekday in their hard hats and work boots at 7 a.m., hauling around cement in wheelbarrows and inspecting electric wires. For six weeks, these rising tenth and eleventh graders get to be electricians, carpenters, masons and technicians as a part of the Summer Building Trades Program put on by Henrico Schools’ Workforce...Article LinkSupport the show