Students recently built a gazebo that raised $6,500 at auction to benefit The Tomorrow Fund.
How often are teenagers given the opportunity to add an addition to a family home, construct a two-story lighthouse-shaped playhouse or build a gazebo that can comfortably fit more than a dozen people? In Scott Leavitt's carpentry and construction classes at the Coventry High School Regional Career and Technical Center, chances like these come up on a regular basis. Leavitt, who has been teaching the trade for 12 years while operating his contracting company, S. Leavitt Carpentry for 10, currently has more than 50 students among the three levels of Carpentry courses that he instructs. In Carpentry 1, a one and a half hour class held every other day, the students focus primarily on safety, basic techniques and tool operation while …
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Area students benefited from 2-day ‘Backhoedown’ event.
Over 1,300 students from public, private, technical and charter schools throughout the state attended Construction Career Days on Apr. 25-26. The hands-on career exploration event was sponsored by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and University of Rhode Island Transportation Center (URITC). RIDOT’s Midstate Maintenance Facility in East Greenwich, across from Centre of New England, was the host site for event, begun 12 years ago. Outside, students were given a chance to operate almost two dozen backhoes as well as excavators, pavers and bucket trucks. Under guidance from several professionals and with hard hats always on, they changed a tire while being timed, attempted to …
Sandy Lukowicz
6:19 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
SLukowicz/Museum Coordinator I for one am very proud of our students at CHS Technical Center. Last year the students made a well for us at the Western RI Civic Historical Society at Paine House, 7 Station St. Our visitors can't get over how well it was made. Keep up the good work Coventry. more ›