Colorado High School Students Get Hands-on Experience Building a Tiny Home
A group of 12 students from Summit High School, in Breckenridge, Colo., is getting hands-on experience in the skilled trades building a 288-square-foot tiny home as part of a construction class, Summit Daily News reports. The project, a group effort involving Educational Pathways to Innovative Careers—a program that works with school districts across Colorado’s Western Slope to provide high schoolers and adults with job-ready skills—as well as the Summit County Builders Association and community residents who are volunteering their time to mentor students on the jobsite, should be completed by the end of the school year. Once finished, the home will be returned to the Educational Pathways program, which will sell it to a local school district for use as employee housing.
The tiny home project incorporates all the skills the careers and construction program seeks to facilitate, including hands-on experience with building, eclectic and plumbing installation. Beyond the physical work, it grants students a chance to learn from industry veterans and build connections that can serve them in their careers.
“They are shoulder to shoulder working on these projects, asking questions, learning about their own choices, their own path and having meaningful conversations about the industry,” said Summit High School Co-Principal Doug Blake.