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Annual CANCO challenge puts high-schoolers' skills to the test
Annual CANCO challenge puts high-schoolers' skills to the test

Construction trades students from five SE Iowa high schools were given the task to frame and drywall adjoining metal stud walls with window, door openings.

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Ft. Madison wins CANCO High School Skills Challenge again
Ft. Madison wins CANCO High School Skills Challenge again

Five SE Iowa schools took part in the annual event hosted by Carl A. Nelson & Company, with students putting classroom learning to the real-world test.

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CANCO represented at CTE event with Iowa Gov. Reynolds
CANCO represented at CTE event with Iowa Gov. Reynolds

Carl A. Nelson & Company was among the partner firms represented at Fort Madison High School when Gov. Kim Reynolds visited to learn about CTE successes.

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CANCO hosts 2020 High School Skills Challenge
CANCO hosts 2020 High School Skills Challenge

Fort Madison wins Carl A. Nelson & Company’s 2020 High School Skills Challenge Kane Williams, left, and Trey Edwards, from Fort Madison High School, screw a piece of lumber onto the angled steel frame of their platform during the 2020 High School Skills Challenge at Carl A. Nelson & Company. BURLINGTON,…

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Students get hands-on with careers at YMCA
Students get hands-on with careers at YMCA

High school students in an Architecture, Construction and Engineering program get chance to meet builders and engineers from Carl A. Nelson & Company.

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Carl A. Nelson & Co. helps with grant
Carl A. Nelson & Co. helps with grant

Carl A. Nelson & Company among partners to be granted $18,000 in Round 2 of Future Ready Iowa's Employer Innovation Fund awards to back local building trades career training program.

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CANCO lends students a hand
CANCO lends students a hand

Employees of Carl A. Nelson & Company helped dry-in a student-built house under construction in Fort Madison, Iowa.

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2019 High School Skills Challenge
2019 High School Skills Challenge

Area High School Students Compete in Third Annual Carl A. Nelson & Company Construction Skills Challenge Event puts Construction Trades students to the test with real-world construction tasks BURLINGTON, Iowa – Carl A. Nelson & Company, a 106-year-old design-build, construction management and general…

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