Local high school students are hard at work building a set of eight tiny houses in Amherstview.
It is part of the Building Construction Internship Program, which provides hands-on work for students in Grades 11 and 12 from across Kingston to give them experience working in the trades.
Grade 12 student Jordan Frenette says, “I enjoy doing hands-on activities.
“I don’t enjoy writing glued to my chair in class. It’s fun to be able to come out and learn and do stuff, put things together and create something that might actually be useful to someone in the future.
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The students who are making these tiny houses are going towards a good cause.
Each tiny house will be used for one homeless person in Kingston, helping someone in need of it.
“It’s nice to know that we’re making something that someone can actually use,” Frenett says.
“It’s nice to know that we are helping others while learning for ourselves.”
Once they’re finished, these eight tiny houses are expected to be placed on McCauley Street in the Rideau Heights neighborhood.
Each house would be self-sufficient, with plumbing and electricity as well as a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room.
“It’s kind of a trending thing, these tiny houses,” says Dan Fisher, a construction technology teacher at Ernestown Secondary School.
“Everyone’s talking about them – you see them on TV and things like that. It’s great for a kid to be able to go and create these spaces, to see how those spaces are used.” is done.
The tiny houses project was started last February by a different group of students, and with each semester, a new group comes in and leaves the previous one.
The group hopes to have two of the tiny houses completed this semester, while the others will be finished in the future.
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