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Woodworking

Building and repairing with wood across our 109-acre campus.

About the program

Student-interns learn practical carpentry in our barn woodshop. They build and repair wooden structures around the campus, help construct footbridges on local trails, and help teach woodworking classes for students and families.

What our student-employees do

  • Build and repair wooden structures around the campus
  • Help construct footbridges on local trails
  • Help teach woodworking classes for students and families
  • Care for tools and keep the woodshop safe

What they learn

  • Measuring, cutting and joinery
  • Safe use of hand and power tools
  • Reading plans and building to spec
  • Carpentry skills for careers in the trades
Student-interns screwing down the decking on a new wooden footbridge in the woodsInterns and instructors helping kids build wooden toolboxes at the woodshop workbenchStudents gluing and assembling toolboxes in the barn woodshopA finished handmade pine toolbox built in the woodshop

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