Holley students build sheds for Homesteads 4 Hope

Photos courtesy of Holley Central School: Holley students have again built sheds to be used by Homesteads for Hope, a nonprofit community farm on Manitou Road in Spencerport that gives people of all abilities a place to grow their talents.

Press Release, Holley Central School

HOLLEY – Holley math teacher Russ Albright and technology teacher Dylan Sharpe co-teach Geometry in Construction, with students rotating between math days and building days each week.

There are 14 students in this year’s class, with the majority in 10th grade. The class helps students learn how math concepts can be applied to real-world problems to create solutions.

Students combined their math and construction skills to build two sheds for Homesteads 4 Hope this year.  The sheds are both 8′ x 10′.  One has a traditional gable end roof and the other has a “salt box” roof. They have done four previous building projects for H4H.

“I think some students benefit from a ‘hands on’ learning approach,” Albright said. “Not every student that takes the class will want to pursue a career in construction, but they will all leave with a general understanding of building techniques and see how geometric concepts are used in the construction field. The kids also like the idea of helping a non-profit organization with what we build. It gives them a sense of pride seeing that we accomplished something as a group that will benefit an organization in some way.”

This is the first year the class built the structures at the school and will have them delivered to H4H fully completed. Usually, they build the structure at the school in panelized form, break down the panels and load them onto a trailer, and reconstruct them on the H4H site, spending two full days there building.