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Texas A&M Students Give Home an ‘Extreme Makeover’
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Students from Texas A&M's NAHB Student Chapter worked with “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" designer/carpenter Ed Sanders to help rebuild a home for the DeAeth family. The show aired Jan. 29. | Demonstrating their commitment to community service, the NAHB Student Chapter from Texas A&M University appeared on the Sunday, Jan. 29 episode of the popular television show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
The program centered on the DeAeth family, which was having problems operating True Blue Animal Rescue out of their barn after it had fallen into disrepair.
Recruited to the project as a result of a lead from the Bryan-College Station Home Builders Association, more than 250 student members from the university worked with Stylecraft Builders, Inc., a local company, to tear down and erect a new home for the family in just six days.
Accounting for approximately 70% of the volunteers on the program, the students introduced ABC staff to their school’s construction science program, even teaching them the college fight song.
ABC was so pleased with the student volunteers that it brought several of them to Houston to work on an upcoming rebuilding project and offered one a permanent job on the “Extreme Makeover” staff.
Texas A&M’s dedication to community and chapter activities helped it win several awards at the 2006 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. last month. The school won third place in the Outstanding Student Chapter Award sponsored by the National Council of the Housing Industry — The Supplier 100 of NAHB and also took home the third place trophy in the NAHB Residential Construction Competitions. Joe Horlen, the school’s student chapter faculty advisor, was presented the NAHB Student Chapters Junior Faculty Award.
Administered by the Home Builders Institute, the workforce development arm of NAHB, and funded by NAHB, corporate partners and student member dues, the NAHB Student Chapters program helps to enrich the educational experience of students enrolled in construction-related studies through national membership in the association.
Chapters located at high schools, vocational and technical schools, community colleges (two-year programs) and universities (four-year programs) across the country provide students first-hand exposure to the “real-world” of the home building industry, an invaluable complement to their academic studies.
For more information on NAHB Student Chapters, e-mail Page Browning at HBI, or call her at 800-795-7955 x8918.
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Two NAHB Student Chapters students from Texas A&M hard at work during the show. |
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