Escalante Middle School eighth graders from left, Wesley Schaefer, 13; Kolten Merrick, 14; and Yanira Rodriguez, 13, build a playhouse Tuesday at the school. Seventeen students in the level 1 construction trades class are building five playhouses with donated lumber that will be distributed to the four elementary schools that feed into Escalante Middle School. One playhouse will be sold to help recoup some of the cost of building them. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School eighth graders from left, Wesley Schaefer, 13; Kolten Merrick, 14; and Yanira Rodriguez, 13, build a playhouse Tuesday at the school. Seventeen students in the level 1 construction trades class are building five playhouses with donated lumber that will be distributed to the four elementary schools that feed into Escalante Middle School. One playhouse will be sold to help recoup some of the cost of building them. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School student, Abilene Walker, 13, uses a chop saw while building a playhouse Tuesday at the school. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School student, Abilene Walker, 13, uses a chop saw while building a playhouse Tuesday at the school. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School wood working teacher Bryan Bagdol works with eighth graders from left, Kolten Merrick, 14; Yanira Rodriguez, 13; Finely Pribble, 13; and Wesley Schaefer, 13, as they build a playhouse Tuesday at the school. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School wood working teacher Bryan Bagdol works with eighth graders from left, Kolten Merrick, 14; Yanira Rodriguez, 13; Finely Pribble, 13; and Wesley Schaefer, 13, as they build a playhouse Tuesday at the school. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School wood working teacher Bryan Bagdol shows the painted wood flowers his students made for the playhouses they are building. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Escalante Middle School wood working teacher Bryan Bagdol shows the painted wood flowers his students made for the playhouses they are building. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)