Help Educate the Next Generation of Constructors

AGC of America’s popular Build Up! educational resource for elementary-age children has expanded beyond the classroom to Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, to library career centers, and, lately, to Boys & Girls Clubs. Through a partnership between AGC and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, clubs around the nation are learning about the kits and requesting AGC sponsors provide them with kits. Boys & Girls Clubs, which serve nearly five million youths from more than 4,000 mostly inner-city clubhouses, provide after-school programs and services to promote and enhance the development of boys and girls. By donating a Build Up! kit to a club in your area, you are both helping the next generation learn about the built environment and their role in it, and providing, fun, hands-on, team-building projects and lessons to children ages 9-12. We still need sponsors for more than 350 kits for Boys & Girls Clubs around the nation. Please visit our interactive map to see if there’s a club in your area looking for kits. This map is updated weekly with new requests being added and fulfilled requests being deleted. So far AGC members and chapters have donated more than 50 toolkits to clubs nationwide. Each kit costs $199 plus shipping and provides enough materials for 30 children. If you would like more information or have questions, contact Liz Elvin at elvinl@agc.org.