CHS Students Build 'DAWG HAUS' for FEMA/RIEMA Outreach Program
Carpentry students built a structure that demonstrates improved building techniques used to prevent damage from storm events.
Three seniors in Scott Leavitt's carpentry class at the Regional Career and Technical Center at Coventry High School were given the opportunity to showcase their skills while demonstrating stronger building techniques for communities at risk of storm damage. Mark Kucal, Eddie Bailey and Thomas Maulodin were selected by Leavitt to construct a scale model FEMA "DAWG HAUS" (Disaster Avoidance with Good Home Attenuating Unionization System) out of scrap supplies from their classroom to demonstrate safer and stronger building techniques. Leavitt explained that he chose the three students because of their future involvement in the SkillsUSA competition in March where they will utilize the skills they have learned to compete against students …
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3:25 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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