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EDUCATION
CABINS FOR CAMP WABANSI
Trades & Engineering
Technologies students
collaborate for campers.
Students at Northeast Wisconsin
Technical College collaborated amongst
multiple programs to take the skills
they had learned in the classroom out
into the real world in a collaboration
with the YMCA’s Camp Wabansi.
The camp approached NWTC in need of
new and updated cabins for campers. With
over 700 campers coming to Wabansi
each summer, their first priority was
updating the cabins used as a nature
center and camp store. According to YMCA
representatives, the previous cabins were
built by volunteers in the 1980’s and were
severely falling into a state of disrepair.
The project began when Civil Engineering
Technology students arrived on-
site to complete topographical land
surveying and elevation studies of the
properties. After the land survey, the
students created topographical maps
for the organization and builders.
Once the land was surveyed, groups of
students from a variety of programs
within the Construction Management
program began their work.
With the direction of NWTC instructors,
the students constructed the cabins from
the ground up in their school lab. Then,
[The cabins] look extremely durable, and they’re just
beautiful, I don’t know how we would ever do this
without them or how we could improve
this place without this kind of help.
Max Clark
Executive Director of Camping Services
for the Greater Green Bay YMCA
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