FARMINGTON — A Mt. Blue High School 2007 graduate will head for Juneau, Alaska, in July where a job building boats out of composite materials awaits him.

Dylan Carlton, 19, was just hired Monday by a small boat firm in Juno that will give him the opportunity to develop the boat from the very beginning, he said. Carlton said he likes the problem-solving part of building.

Carlton recently graduated from a 10-month composite program at The Landing School in the Arundel-Kennebunk area. The school offers programs in boat building and other marine industries. This was the first year that the school offered the composite program where he learned to build with materials such as fiberglass and carbon fiber or composites.

Students also attend from India, Thailand and Canada.

While building boats wasn’t part of his future plans, Carlton was a member of the first composite building class at Forster Regional Applied Technology Center while in high school. Taught by John McDonald, the class built and raced a carbon electric car and started on a solar electric one, he said.

Carlton’s success working with composite led McDonald to suggest The Landing School because of its new composite program.

As one who likes to snowboard and skateboard, he said, he has started building his own skateboards and working on a snowboard design. His future plans include building his own sailboat, he said.

Carlton, son of Dina Goldsmith, grew up in Wilton. He will leave his family to travel 4,000 miles away but he’ll be back, he said. He’s taking his dog, Nikomus.

After gaining experience in Alaska and doing some hunting and fishing, he hopes to come back and build ships on the Maine coast.

He earned a North Star Alliance Initiative Education Award that garnered a scholarship to help him through his schooling, he said. NSAI offered 14 scholarships this year to help strengthen Maine’s marine industry. The education awards are for people who plan to pursue careers in Maine in boat building, marine trades and composite manufacturing.