Frisco ISD Focus Magazine February 2018 | Page 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 FOCUS | 11