A $13 million investment in a construction facility at Rancho Buena Vista High School is paying off. Students are building tiny homes for homeless veterans and learning skills they’ll take with them after graduation.
It's the envy of any general contractor: a new 9,000-square-foot facility filled with construction and welding tools, all in the grasp of Rancho Buena Vista High School students.
"With so much space, we can do bigger things. I mean, it'd be really difficult to teach construction and residential construction in a small space," said Landon Cardenas, the construction course teacher at the high school."So we have a lot of space. There's not really any limit to what we can do."The class is building a couple of tiny homes that will be donated to homeless veterans through the Warrior Village Project this week.
"It actually really makes me feel really good. Like I feel like I'm doing a good deed," said Jorge Hernandez, another senior in the construction class."I've grown up with, 'Do good for someone and someone will do good for you.'"On Wednesday, this group of students will collaborate with other school districts and trade professionals on the tiny home project.
Before the new facility, he said the class was held in portable classrooms, and projects were smaller in scale.
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