For a high schooler, thinking about the future can be intimidating, especially when it comes to a career.

For the more than 1,900 high school students from 48 area high schools that visited Macon on Wednesday, that process became a little easier after attending an interactive construction career fair.

Students who attended were able to interact with people in their potential career fields. It also gave the students a chance to use the equipment they work with every day.

"You can talk about something, but until you actually try it and see it, you don't know for sure if it's something that you're you're good at or you're interested in doing or that that you even want to learn more about," said event organizer Polly Matteson. "But this is a great way for students to have that opportunity to try it out."

KTVO caught up with several of the kids at the event and asked them what they hoped to get out of the day.

Most of them said that they enjoyed the opportunity to try out careers that they may not have thought of before.

"I think it's pretty cool. I think it's a really good opportunity to see what you want to do in the future," said Tyler Crouse, from Moberly High School. "They have a bunch of stuff over here and a lot of it's interactive too, and you get free candy, so that's a plus."

"I think this place is wonderful just to see what kind of innovations were made in the industry and just to see what opportunities that we have," said Alex Harrison, from Madison High School.

Teachers at the event said they hope that by seeing the skills used every day by professionals, that will help the students in the classroom as well.

That real-world application of what they're learning in the classroom is just key to engagement and interest in school and figuring out what they want to do later or developing the skills and transferable skills that'll take them through a lot of different options as they can in their life after graduating from high school," Matteson said.

Overall, the organizers hope that it will help shine the light on a future career for the students through the connections they made at the event.

"But overall, that reflective piece they could talk about," Matteson said. "What was your favorite part? What did you see that you hadn't thought about before that you're considering now? What would you like to learn more about and then having contacts, because they have a lot of people here today that they can reach out with more questions later."