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Chapter News

September 24, 2015

Zero Tolerance

Students at Lanier High School in San Antonio learned how truancy, teen pregnancy and gang problems at their school were related to alcohol and drug abuse. Through mentoring, resource booths…

Chapter News

September 24, 2015

A New Place for Homeless Kids to Play

Students, faculty and staff from McCann Technical School in North Adams, Mass., helped spruce up Louison House, their area’s homeless shelter. With funds raised selling candles, they repainted the play…

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April 21, 2015

Making Tracks for Inclusion

Building trades students at Bethlehem (Pa.) Area Vocational Technical School (BAVTS) built easels and frames to display children’s paintings created in the Wheels of Friendship program developed by the organization…

Chapter News

April 21, 2015

Their Skills are Dog-Gone Good

Construction students at Jackson (Ga.) High School have designed and built doghouses for sale. They also donated several to the Butts County Sheriff’s Office K-9 units. The project gives students…

Chapter News

April 21, 2015

Thinking Inside the Box to Save Ducks

Students Joseph Beebe and T.J. Frampton stepped up to help ducks nest on Goat Island on the Pocomoke River near Snow Hill, Md. The island’s department of public works director,…

Chapter News

April 21, 2015

Taking a Bite Out of Food Waste

To reduce cafeteria food waste at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School in Bourne, Mass., Jack Rodgers and Joseph Fisher, environmental science and technology students, have developed a composting system…

Chapter News

February 18, 2015

Here comes the bride, all dressed in … toilet paper?

Cosmetology students at Calhoun County Career Technical Center in Jacksonville, Ala., participated in a team-building exercise involving designing and constructing wedding dresses from toilet paper — a total of six…

Chapter News

February 18, 2015

Sharing a difficult story

Learning that human sex trafficking was taking place around Fort Worth, Texas, students in the video production class at Southwest High School used their technical skills to tell the story.

Chapter News

February 18, 2015

No roping or clowning in this rodeo

Assembling bikes for a safety rodeo. Students at Wilkes Community College (WCC) in Wilkesboro, N.C., participated in a bicycle safety rodeo honoring Seth Teague, a local child who died in…

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