Career and Leadership Development Academy, Cohort Two, Real Estate, Architecture, Engineering and Construction

Career and Leadership Development Academy Cohort Two, Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate Day Blog

Written by the 7th grade team at Trask Middle School

Throughout the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce’s Career and Leadership Development Academy ten month program, each of the eight middle schools are assigned a day to write about their experiences. 37 students from across all eight New Hanover County middle schools participated in the fourth industry exploration day in Cohort Two, Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate, on December 13 with local company leaders in real estate, trades, architecture, city planning, engineering, and construction. Below is the fourth blog write up from Cohort Two of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce’s Career and Leadership Academy experience. 

This month we learned about architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate. So at the beginning of the day when we first got there we did an activity where we were put into groups with kids from other schools. After we got into our groups, we made little models of towns. Apparently architects do this all the time to design pieces of land for their landowners. After we did that we had our first speaker Zachery Norris who talked about engineering. Engineering has a lot of math involved in it so if you like math you might want to look into it. There are many types of engineering like civil, electrical, ect. He talked a bit more about the different projects his company designed and more. Then Mayor Bill Safo talked about how our county was growing. Our region is really fast growing. But more people means more jobs and therefore more homes are needed. After the Mayor spoke we talked about trades. There are different trades. For example a/c, electrical, residential, and commercial properties. Lastly we went outside to look at the new library they were building and the LS3P office. At the LS3P office we met two of the workers there who were architects and they showed us the 3D printers they had to make models of real buildings.