February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month and Blue River Career Programs will be spotlighting its programs and a student from each program Monday through Friday in the Shelby County Post during the month of February.
The CTE spotlight today is Construction Trades program student Scott Jenkins (photo).
Jenkins is a junior at Shelbyville High School and first-year student at BRCP. He maintains good attendance and is polite, respectful, prepared, on time and looks for other students needing help or things needing done to make things operate smoothly.
As a first-year student, he has good communication skills, understands the objective at hand and is a valuable asset guiding and directing others.
The Construction Trades Class has done several projects this year starting with the students picking a 4-member team and building a doghouse from a set of blueprints. Students used communication and team building concepts to transfer measurements to wood and cut, nail, screw and assemble their doghouse while having a friendly competition among other student teams.
Next, the students built an office in the Diesel Tech Lab from start to finish using knowledge learned and applied it to hands-on skills to complete the project. Students learned layout, estimating, framing, siding, painting, dry walling and interior trim.
The students just completed a handrail on the Shelbyville Cultural Trail System for the city and are getting ready for Library/Food Pantry Boxes and a mini barn for a customer.
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