An immersive school program is giving some Alberta high school students the opportunity to build homes from the ground up.
In partnership with Coventry Homes, Grade 10 students in the Parkland School Division, west of Edmonton, can earn diploma credits while building a house from the ground up.
This year, students in the Building Futures program are building a duplex in a Spruce Grove neighbourhood.
The program, one of many offered at Connections for Learning, an alternative education site for the school division, began in 2020.
“There’s a good life to live in the trades,” program teacher Mike Holton told CBC’s Edmonton AM.
“We’re just trying
