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“This project is done in partnership with Morris Habitat for Humanity and at the completion of the project at the school, our home gets moved by crane to a site in town, where the home is completed and a family in need moves into the home and our community.”

“This past summer, we finished our first home, and students this year have already begun the second student-built Habitat for Humanity home. In fact, our entire community rallied around our first project, and again on the second. We’ve seen members of our community donate their time to work with our students, donate products and funds to help complete the projects, and become our biggest cheerleaders and supporters, helping to elevate our students studying the skilled trades into our towns’ rockstars!”

Upon completion of the SDF pathway, students can enter the Carpenters Apprenticeship Training program through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. Through coursework and career guidance, students earn a competitive advantage in the job market. Whether students choose to go into a career related to the skilled trades, engineering, construction, or architecture, or just use these skills when they become homeowners, the experiences and lessons learned in SDF will stick with students for life.

“Students leave this course with not only a thorough understanding of safety and experience in residential construction but also with the confidence that they can set a goal and complete a task, whether it’s a small goal that took them just a class period to do or a large goal like building a home. Through our course, students get real world practice in skills such as work ethic, decision making, and teamwork that will prepare them for any direction life takes them after high school,” shared Caccavale.