Highlands College students build modular homes to add housing while learning [Video]

BUTTE — Some Highlands College students in Butte are actually in their classroom—but this classroom is going to be somebody’s home.

“I started out completely green, so now that I have experience in almost every single field of building a home, it makes me excited about the future,” said Highlands College student Dayvina Johnson.

The two-year college’s construction class last fall started building a modular home to literally give students hands-on training.

“It makes our job as teachers easier because I have something to relate to and I think they are picking up on some of those concepts way quicker than without having that hands-on experience,” said Construction Technologies Instructor Rich Miller.

Student Andy Larson added, “I like working with my hands and learning with my hands, so having these lab opportunities and just taking what you learn in the classroom and coming out here and doing it hands-on is …