Construction Challenge Goals

Our goals are for Construction Challenge participants to:

• Understand the relationships between construction, infrastructure and quality of life.
• Implement a solution to a transportation infrastructure challenge.
• To understand the impact of water infrastructure issues on the quality of life.

Why participate in the Construction Challenge?

Participants will:

• Gain experience with teamwork, creativity, problem solving, project management, budgeting, research and presentation skills.
• Explore infrastructure policy and issues.
• Learn about and experience transportation and water infrastructure careers.
• Pave a pathway for higher education with possible scholarship and internship opportunities.
• Experience real-world issues and help develop solutions.
• Meet new people and build new friendships.
• Compete at the largest trade show on the planet, CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011, where more than 120,000 construction professionals gather from around the globe.
• Have fun!

Educational Benefits

In addition to the content goals for the Construction Challenges, participants will also:

• Foster creative and critical thinking.
• Learn and apply creative problem solving methods and tools.
• Develop teamwork, collaboration and leadership skills.
• Nurture research and inquiry skills, involving creative exploration and attention to detail.
• Enhance and apply written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Promote recognition, use, and development of many and varied strengths and talents.
• Encourage competence in, enthusiasm for, and commitment to problem solving.