Croatan High carpentry students build shelves for Special Olympics
The shelving fills a donated shipping container that holds gear for 15 sports in Carteret County and saves the program about $1,500 a year.
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Carpentry students at Croatan High School in Newport built shelves for Special Olympics Carteret County, WCTI reported. The shelving went into a donated shipping container that holds equipment for 15 sports. The program expects to save about $1,500 a year because that gear no longer needs a separate storage bill.
The students' work is ordinary carpentry with a specific address. The container was already there. What it lacked was a way to keep equipment off the floor and easy to find. The shelves are that system, built by the high school class and delivered to the local program.
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Carpentry students at Croatan High School in Newport, North Carolina, built shelves for Special Olympics Carteret County. The shelves went into a shipping container that was donated to the program. That container holds equipment for 15 sports. With the shelves, the program expects to save about $1,500 a year, because the gear has a place to stay and the group does not have to pay for other storage. The students measured, built, and delivered the shelves. The athletes still get the same balls, goals, and other gear. It is just easier to find.
- Why do shelves matter if the sports gear was already in a container?
- What could a school shop class build that a team near you actually needs?
- How is saving storage money a kind of help, even though nobody handed over cash?
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