Pictures by Marla Blair

The first two weeks of building trades class are spent in the classroom learning fundamental terms, safety guidelines and construction methods.

The building trades house will be a three-bedroom, two-bath home with an attached garage and over 1,500 square feet of living space.

Seniors Hayden Matson and Jade Leake are in their second year of building trades, and both came to the class with some construction experience.

Instructor Justin Dietrich is on the job site with each class. He had construction experience before teaching building trades, and he was part of a crew that built a house this summer.

Each building trades class is slightly less than two hours. A bus transports the students to and from the high school.

The Lincoln Community High School building trades class is for juniors and seniors. Students learn about every aspect of home construction.

Ryan Montcalm (in the crawl space) and Jadon Wheeler inspect their work from the morning class. Both students are juniors, in their first year of building trades.

Jason Sheley measured the cut on one of the floor beams. Class time before actual construction gives students the knowledge they use on the job site.

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