Keweenaw Community Foundation Supports CTE Construction & Technology Students Building a Home

The Keweenaw Community Foundation supports students building new skills in trades with grant awards to the Copper Country ISD Career and Technical Education programs. The Keweenaw Community Foundation recently awarded 5,000 dollars in grant funds from the Herman Gundlach Fund and Funding Youth Initiatives to support the CTE Construction Technology program and the Home Building Project. Construction Technology Students plan to work on building a home from the ground up with help from local contractors and businesses already committed to the project.

The project has plans to even get students from the CTE Graphic Arts and Marketing and Business and Entrepreneurship program involved in the later stages of the project for creating informational signage and to work with real estate agents to learn about selling a home. Throughout the length of the home-building project, students are learning important financial and technical skills that can eventually be applied in future careers. However, the project also aims to support increasing local housing stock.

CTE Director Corey Soumis says that the CTE program’s goals are to always increase the skills students have to take with them into future careers. Programs also seek out projects that are a service to the community. Keweenaw Community Foundation Executive Director Robin Mennguzzo says that from providing opportunities for students to help contribute to the community to developing skills students will need this housing project will act as a shining example of what it looks like when a community comes together to solve a problem and supports each other’s needs.