Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Youngsters wear their construction safety helmets and head into the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason Tuesday 4/15/08 for Michigan Construction Career Days. About 2000 junior and senior high school students from across the state were expected to attend.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Teens pound nails at Michigan Construction Career Days.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Ryan Bakeman, left of Croswell, MI, works a small crane with the help of Al Bias of the Hi-Ball Company.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Bryan Mack, 17, left, and Joshua Walters, 18, right, help haul plywood to assemble walls for housing with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Ingham County. Mack is from Carman-Ainsworth High School and and Walters is from Swartz Creek High School.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Teens with hard hats and tool boxes.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal
Luke Vaughn, 13, of DeWitt, tries an excavator simulator.

Rod Sanford | Lansing State Journal

Larry Beseau, 17, left, and Johnathan Gothrup, 17, right, both students at the William D. Ford Career-Technical Center in Westland, get a better view of the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason from atop a lift.