Learn about career training programs at CVCC’s Trades Fair on May 28
May 19, 2026 | By Waterbury Roundabout
A food tent at the 2025 Central Vermont Career Center Trades Fair. Courtesy photo
Central Vermont Career Center hosts its annual Trades Fair on Thursday, May 28, at the career center in Barre.
The event will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 155 Ayers Street (CVCC is located at Spaulding High School).
The public is invited to attend to learn about the career center’s programs and meet instructors, students, and representatives of companies and organizations that partner with the center.
Central Vermont Career Center serves students from six high schools around the region, including Harwood Union High School.
The Trades Fair features demonstrations and displays by students in the center’s career-training programs. It will host representatives from more than 20 local companies and organizations that partner with the school, and its silent auction fundraiser will support scholarships.
The centerpiece of the fair is the displays and demonstrations from CVCC students from each of the school’s programs. Their booths will include project displays from Automotive, Electrical and Exploratory Technology as well as Plumbing and Heating. Baking Arts will have a bake sale; Culinary Arts plans a taco booth. Some of the offerings are hands-on, such as Welding, Graphic Design’s drawing demonstration, and Videography’s Polaroid booth. Visit Cosmetology students for face painting, braiding and tinsel treatments. In support of the Medical Professions program, the University of Vermont Medical Center Mobile Lab will attend, featuring cancer screenings and stem cell and bone marrow donor registration event where eligible volunteers can register with a cheek swab to help in the fight against blood cancers and disorders.
A dozen items from CVCC programs are up for bid in a silent auction to raise funds for scholarships that will support career center students in their education when they leave CVCC. Scholarship funds assist with post-secondary education costs as well as helping equip students for their new careers, for example, by helping with purchases of tools and work attire needed to in their career fields.
Auction items include a free tire mount and balance service and exterior car wash from the Automotive Technology program, a lamp from Electrical Technology, metal roses created by Welding program students, and a smoked pork shoulder from Culinary Arts.
See the full list of exhibitors, program demonstrations and silent auction items online on the Trades Fair’s webpage at cvtcc.org.