Nineteen students from nine different high schools in Oakland County, Mich., have completed the district’s second annual educational construction project at the Oakland Schools Technical Campus. Over the course of the last year, the students spent 7,300 hours building a 1,368-square-foot home for the Community Housing Network, culminating in a ribbon cutting on July 1.
From raising the framing to installing plumbing, electrical, windows, insulation and drywall, the students spend the school year bringing the house to completion. When class was let out early this March due to the coronavirus, the school’s partners in the trades industry stepped in to finish the job, according to Paul Galbenski, dean at the technical campus.
“These students have turned a pile of wood into a home that, when they pass by 10 or 25 years from now, they can still see what it is they accomplished here,” Galbenski said.
