Back to School in Halton: Legacy Builders Launches a Fully Booked First Year
Backpacks are packed, classrooms are getting ready, and Legacy Builders is officially heading back to school!
This fall feels especially exciting because we’re kicking off our first full school year in Halton Region, and thanks to our partnership with the Halton Catholic District School Board, every available Legacy Builders session for the year is already booked.
Yep. Fully booked before the school year even begins.
For a program built around getting young people excited about careers in construction, seeing this kind of response from educators is a pretty incredible way to start a new chapter.
Bringing Construction Careers Into Halton Classrooms
Legacy Builders was created to introduce Grade 8 students to the huge range of opportunities available within the construction industry.
Our classroom programming introduces students to careers ranging from skilled trades and project management to engineering, accounting, safety, design and leadership. Through interactive activities, hands-on learning and conversations with real industry professionals, we help students understand that construction isn’t a backup plan. It’s a first-choice career with purpose, stability and long-term growth.
One of the most important parts of the program is giving students the chance to hear directly from people working in the industry. Volunteers share their own career journeys, answer questions and show students just how many different paths can lead to a successful career in construction. Students also get to put some of that learning into action through our interactive Legacy Bidders Activity.
Halton Is Ready. Now We Need Industry to Help Us Grow.
Having our first year in Halton fully booked is something worth celebrating, but it also shows us something important: The demand is there.
Our hope is that this is only the beginning.
As we establish Legacy Builders in Halton this school year, we would love to expand the number of sessions we can offer in the region next year. Making that happen will depend on support from the local construction community. We need Halton-area companies, sponsors and industry volunteers who believe that building our future workforce starts long before someone applies for their first apprenticeship or construction job.
Sponsorship dollars help us put real resources into classrooms, including the materials, activities and career information students take home with them. Our sponsorship program is specifically designed to help Legacy Builders continue delivering hands-on programming while expanding our reach to more students and households.
And our volunteers bring something just as valuable: their stories.
You don’t need to be a professional speaker. You just need experience in the industry and a willingness to show students what a career in construction can actually look like.
Help Us Build What Comes Next
We’re incredibly excited to see Legacy Builders enter Halton classrooms this fall, and we’re grateful to the Halton Catholic District School Board and the educators who have welcomed the program so enthusiastically.
Now we want to build on that momentum.
If you work in construction, skilled trades, engineering, design, project management, safety, estimating, accounting, supply, manufacturing or one of the countless careers that help our industry run, there is a place for you in Legacy Builders.
Become a volunteer. Bring your company on as a sponsor. Share the program with someone in your Halton network.
Because the more industry gets involved, the more classrooms we can reach.
And judging by our fully booked first year in Halton, we’re going to need them.
