Lantz Construction Company Wins Contest for Workforce Development, Awards Scholarship to Local School

In October, for “Careers in Construction Month (CICM),” Lantz and other educators/industry members across the nation pledged to promote careers in construction, an initiative of the National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) and Build Your Future (BYF).  Throughout the month, Lantz shared student-produced videos on their social media platforms that promoted Massanutten Technical Center’s various construction programs (and launched a friendly contest for the most popular video), they hosted MTC students at Lantz to assist with a carpentry related project, and they went to MTC to speak to second year students about career opportunities and industry trends to better prepare the young men and women.

Taking the NCCER’s pledge automatically entered Lantz in a drawing to win one of four $5,000 scholarships to be awarded to the “secondary construction craft training program” of their choosing and of the 168 total participants in the national campaign, Lantz was selected as a winner!  They awarded the scholarship to MTC and they plan to use the $5,000 to fund their five construction programs and co-curricular activities.