ABC-SEMI Southeast Michigan Contractors Issue 3, 2021

10 Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. SEMCA Come start your career at SEMCA! Carpentry Welding Electrical HVAC www.semcaschool.org 248-298-3600 Schedule a tour, enroll, or learn more! the evening but worked in their selected trade during the day. It was a celebration for the books. The graduation was held at Jimmy John’s Field, and over 300 family members and friends got to watch their loved ones cross the stage and become SEMCA graduates. It truly felt as if for a few hours, time stood still again, but this way, it was welcomed. The sun shined, and the smiles lit up the stadium as the graduates were celebrated for all their hard work and perseverance through the unthink- able the pandemic had thrown at them. We look forward to the future here at SEMCA. We endured the unknown and made sure our students received the same skilled trade training that we have been providing for years, so if life throws another wrench in our plans, you can count on us. Over the next few years, we expect our graduating class to grow in size with craftsmen and women receiving credentials for the electrical, carpentry, HVAC, and welding trades. The next time you hear about the growing skills gap in the construction industry, consider the graduates and students of SEMCA. Share our mission with your community, what was once a little-known training program has developed into one of the largest apprenticeship programs in the state of Michigan. SEMCA will continue to be a force in the workforce development space to ensure that our future of the construc- tion industry is skilled, motivated, and safety conscious. “Over the next few years, we expect our graduating class to grow in size with craftsmen and women receiving credentials for the electrical, carpentry, HVAC, and welding trades.”