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May 2024
30m 48s

Capital College And Career Academy: The ...

Eric Anderton
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2023 was a significant year for the educational sphere. Today, we get a future glimpse of construction education with the Founder and Director of Capital College & Career AcademyKevin Dobson. In this episode, he brings some of his freshmen students who share experiences on studying construction and provide feedback on their ongoing classes. As they look forward to becoming engineers, they share perspectives on applying their learnings to the real world, how they hope to bring innovation to this ever-growing space, and what must be done to revolutionize the currently lacking education system.

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