Students Raymond Montandon and Tyler Jenkins moving a newly built whiteboard
by Taylor Williams
The Career and Technical Education (CTE) classes do many projects throughout the year to improve the campus. BHS’s carpentry, drafting, and masonry classes often take on projects to help out the school and community. They are able to do it with the help of their teachers.
The carpentry class builds many things that benefit the school. They have made dry erase boards for teachers, bulletin boards for the hallway, trophy cases, and pull-up bars for ROTC. The teacher of the carpentry class said his favorite project was the sheds that they built for the elementary school.
“I have been a general contractor for the past fifteen years. I like teaching people, and I like passing knowledge along,” said Thad Sanders, the teacher of the carpentry class.
Many students would also agree that carpentry is a great class to take.
“I like this class a lot and Sanders is one of the best teachers in the school,” said senior Will Swan.
Angela Patane’s drafting class is doing amazing things for the school as well. They have made cell phone tripods for the journalism class, fixed a tripod for the yearbook class, and made devil horns for spirit week.
“People who should take drafting are interested in engineering, architecture, and any of the building trades,” Patane said. “Also, people who are detail-oriented would like this class, and anyone who likes learning new software.”
Students enjoy taking this class because of all the hands-on work they get to do.
The masonry class is another interesting CTE class. In this class, students learn the basic knowledge of masonry and how to fix up minor things in houses.
Colby Guice’s masonry class also helps do many things for the school and community. They built the storage building for the art class and worked on the stadiums. Guice also takes some of his students to competitions.
CTE classes teach students real-life skills while benefitting the campus and community.