Tiny home projects bring high schools together

The mightiest oak starts with the tiniest acorn. This is certainly true of student Natalia Andrade’s story at Summer Creek High School. Andrade is the designer of Summer Creek’s tiny home construction, a major service project to benefit a veteran in need. Kingwood Park students are also constructing a tiny home, and the students from both schools work closely together.
For Andrade, it all started when architecture teacher James Gaylord asked Andrade to attend an AutoCAD computer-aided design and drafting software presentation. One meeting and Andrade was hooked. She began drawing small elements which soon turned into a whole-house design.

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