PITTSBURG, Kan. — A classroom project means a new home for some deserving animals.
For the past several weeks, students in Pitt State’s “Construction Systems Technology course” have been building dog houses. The project lets the students practice skills like designing and framing structure, which some of those students will then take and teach to others, when they graduate and become teachers themselves.
As an added bonus, these dog houses were donated to Southeast Kansas Animal Advocates, a foster-based rescue organization.
“Every time we can help our fosters cut some of the costs of fostering additional animals, it definitely helps encourage other people to become fosters,” said Susan Bastion, SEK Animal Advocates Director.
“For us, it helps us to watch our teachers teach instruction, and how they handled us, safety and all of those aspects. Plus, for us, we can use this in our everyday lives of fixing shingles, and any projects we have in the future,” said Gage Davenport, PSU Junior.
“The dog house project is more of a cap stone project, so they go through the whole process, whether that’s building from the ground up, so they actually do floor framing, wall framing, roof framing, and going all the way through,” said Trevor Maiseroulle, PSU Assistant Instructional Professor.
SEK Animal Advocates helps find foster homes for about 600 dogs and 200 cats each year.
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