Frisco ISD Focus Magazine February 2018 | Seite 11

High school students from across Frisco ISD have helped design and build a tiny house to assist people facing challenges with housing
and transportation. These students take Agriculture Structures Design and Fabrication during second period on B days.
Tiny House, Big
Recovery
Career and technical education students learn valuable and
practical skills, while making a difference for women in need.
The tiny house being built by Frisco
ISD students may be small, but its mis-
sion is huge.
Students from the Career and Technical
Education Center are designing and con-
structing a new home for people who are
rebuilding their lives.
The house will be the first tiny house
placed in a new rural Collin County ti-
ny-house community. The tiny-house
village is sponsored through the McKinney-
based nonprofit Grace to Change. It will
offer women with criminal records and/or
addiction issues a home. Grace to Change
has named the program Tiny House, Big
Recovery.
The tiny-house project combines
FISD’s career and technical education
curriculum with a sense of community
spirit and compassion. Mentoring their
students in both skills and social aware-
ness are Brandon Scheu, who teaches
agriculture mechanics and metal tech-
nology, and Clint Floyd, who teaches ar-
chitectural design and construction.
The students are honing their skills
in architectural design, electrical design,
framing, welding, painting and installation
of flooring, windows and doors. They will
be instructed by professional roofers,
plumbers and electricians, and all the
materials are donated. The project cov-
ers almost all real-life job skills involved
in construction, as well as a lesson about
real-life struggles.
“This project is more than just design-
ing another building; this is a design in-
tended to help people change their lives,”
Floyd said. “We could not have asked for
a more life-changing task for our students
to be part of.”
Floyd explained that the students
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