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Students Build New Homes In School

JIM THORPE — Carpentry students in their first year at Carbon Career & Technical Institute to students in their fourth year all had a part in building...
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JIM THORPE -- Carpentry students in their first year at Carbon Career & Technical Institute to students in their fourth year all had a part in building a modular home in about 100 days.

The students had worked on bench projects and bird houses, but they never imagined getting to build a real house in school.

"The kids really got into it right away and started working from day one," said Jeffrey Hazelton a carpentry instructor at CCTI.

For years, carpentry students worked on typical shop work projects like building benches, but they certainly challenged themselves on this latest one.

"We were going from building sheds and putting benches together and doing our own little projects to now a house," said Halle Sargend, a second-year carpentry student.

Building the modular is a win/win for students and the person who gets a new home. The students get the hands-on experience they need, and the new owner of the modular only had to pay for the materials used to make the home.

"I've done a lot of remodeling work like fixing stuff up but never built a home from scratch," said CCTI carpentry senior Owen Miller.

The carpentry students not only built this modular from scratch, but they decked it out with a host of intricate projects like building and installing barn style doors, a hand crafted bunk bed, and a space-saving table.

They built the entire one-bedroom modular for about $25,000, around a third of what it would typically sell for.

The home should be delivered to the owners on Thursday morning, and then the students are off to working on the next modular.

There is a waiting list of about a half-dozen people who want one of the modular homes built by CCTI students.

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