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Building Futures Expo gives students a look at the trades

By: Dave Thompson|November 20, 2024
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    • Autumn Gulliams tries her hand at bricklaying during the first Building Futures Career Expo event held Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

    Sophia Baugher was one of more than 1,000 students attending the first Building Futures Career Expo event Tuesday, Nov. 19, at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island.

    The career expo gave her a chance to try her hand at welding, which she discovered she liked and now is considering as a career.

    “They have a lot…

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