(WCBI) – More than 2,000 8th-grade students got to explore careers in construction and skilled trades at the 6th annual FORGE Your Path Career Expo. “From running a mini excavator, to finishing concrete, laying brick, doing a welding simulator, we have a driving simulator, just so many different aspects to show them, there are so many different career pathways in the construction industry,” said Executive Director of FORGE, Melinda Lowe. “If something here entices them that they want to go back to their career tech center, maybe they wanna take welding, maybe they want to take construction, electrical engineering, this is the time to talk to those teachers, those counselors, and make that path, and learn what that’s gonna look like for them,” Lowe said.