Anyone who’s tackled a home improvement project knows one trip to the hardware store is never enough.
That is just as true when teaching middle and early high schoolers about skilled trades — with Brian Battaglia, director of the Skilled Trades Education Program, making multiple trips for everything from drywall boards and 2x4s to hand tools and junction boxes.
“They know me at Lowe’s pretty well now,” Battaglia said with a laugh, having purchased thousands of dollars of equipment to set up the 3,000-square-foot facility in Peninsula…