Students Will Get Hands-on Experience with Heavy Construction Equipment in First STC Dig Day at Evergreen High School

Vancouver, Wash. – Students in Evergreen High School’s Skilled Trades Center program will get the unique opportunity to operate heavy construction equipment in the inaugural STC Dig Day on Thursday, Nov. 30.

The event for Career & Technical Education (CTE) students will be held at the Skilled Trades Center at Evergreen High School. Media members are invited to attend, take photos and videos, and interview students and staff from 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Six stations will be set up inside and outside the Skilled Trades Center. In attendance will be representatives from C&E Rentals, which is generously donating use of the equipment, and Tapani Construction, whose staff will provide hands-on guidance on the proper and safe operation of the equipment.

Students will get the opportunity to safely operate such heavy equipment as excavators, diggers, trenchers, dozers and scissors lifts, all of which are mainstays of the construction industry.

Evergreen’s CTE program prepares students for careers in trades, including construction. The program had a big 2022-23 school year, with longtime teacher Bill Culver winning a grand prize in the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools for Teaching Excellence awards, which came with a $100,000 award for the program; and the spring opening of the Skilled Trades Center, which gives students the room and equipment to learn skills for future careers.

Media planning to attend are asked to contact Craig Birnbach by emailing craig.birnbach@evergreenps.org or calling 360-604-4164.

About Evergreen Public Schools: With more than 22,000 students in 38 schools in the city of Vancouver, Evergreen Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the state of Washington.