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Re: Let's see your homemade crafts!
These are called Bevin's skiffs. It is a program designed to teach kids teamwork,building and tool skills and it is an applied math program. They need to learn how to use a tape measure and add and subtract fractions to build the boat. Mainly it teaches them why they need to learn math rather than think they are wasting their time in math class. Schools are so geared to get kids in college but there are some that just don't benefit from it so they need to learn that the trades are an option that will give them a decent wage job. I am not a teacher but an auto body guy that builds boats as a hobby. I found out about this program and assembled a team of volunteers to help me. We have built 12 of these boats with middle school and high school kids in the last 4 years,
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