Students at Sedro-Woolley High School in Washington State are ditching the traditional woodshop projects for something a little more hands-on: Building tiny houses for their homeless neighbors.
Students in the school’s Core Plus Construction class have been building the homes from the ground up in a partnership with the Low Income Housing Institute in Seattle.
“We have four tiny homes this year,” instructor Daniel Caldwell said in a press release for the school district.
“These are continuing from last year and the previous year. LIHI works with Lowe’s, and they drop off the supplies to build all of the tiny houses. We order four at a time. They drop off all the materials, and the students build them. Once we’re finished, LIHI comes to pick them up and drop off more houses for us to build.”…