Additional Information for Schools

EVENT SCHEDULE:  Students are invited to MICCD on April 27 & 28 from 9:00am to 1:00pm.  

FOUR WAYS TO EXPERIENCE MICCD:  

1. Information Booths:  As a career exploration event, these booths are usually sponsored by colleges, universities and other industry organizations providing information on education and training after high school.

2. Hands-On Activities (HOA):  These activities are sponsored by companies and skilled-trades unions and will take place inside the exhibit hall.  HOA include:  wood cutting and nailing, copper pipe sweating, electrical wire pulling, masonry, heavy equipment repair, wind-turbines demonstrations, etc.

3. Large Outdoor Displays: Includes static heavy equipment, construction vehicles, solar arrays, or other types of construction related displays.

4. Active Heavy Equipment:  Under the direction of skilled and trained construction professionals, there will be pieces of heavy equipment your students can actually operate, i.e. backhoes, excavators, wheeled loaders, pavers, rollers, motor graders, hi-lows, aerial lifts.

REGISTRATION:  Please fill out and submit the enclosed School Registration Form.  Be sure to have a school administrator sign the form.  You can pre-register your school without the second signature; however, your registration will not be confirmed until we receive the form with the second signature.  You can also pre-register online at www.MichiganCCD.org.

As registration is first come first serve, we will put schools on a waiting list once we have 4500 students pre-registered.  We will then confirm schools registration by April 2, 2010.  We will contact schools on the waiting list during the week of April 5, 2010 should we be able to accommodate their students.  

FOOD: For the first two years, MICCD provided lunch to all students and chaperones at no cost to them funded through industry financial support. With the economy being what is, it is unlikely we will be able to again provide free lunches this year.  A food catering service has been identified to provide a reasonable healthy meal for no more than $6.00 each for purchase.   As Springfield Oaks County Park is not close to any other food vendor, you should prepare your students to come with their own lunch or be purchase their lunch on-site.  

MICCD will advise all registered schools by April 2, 2010 if we will be able to subsidize the lunch cost or provide lunch for free.   

PARENT/GUARDIAN RELEASE FORMS: MICCD requires all student attendees submit a Parent/Guardian Release Form.  This form will provide another layer of protection for schools and MICCD event organizers as well as give MICCD permission to use photos and video or radio recordings of students in the future.  If your school does have a media or liability release form you can submit those.  If not, please use the form provided along with your registration confirmation. Please bring these forms for each student your school brings and give them to the Welcome Guide upon your arrival to MICCD.

CHAPERONES: Ensure 1 chaperone for every 15 students.  

BUSSING REIMBURSEMENT: MICCD has been able to offset some of the bussing expenses with a grant issued by the Michigan Tech University – University Transportation Center for Materials in Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure.  MICCD has secured $5000 of bussing funding.  As in the past, we will divide the amount of the grant equally by the number of busses that come that indicated they were interested in receiving such funding.