PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN

Thursday, May 19, 2022; Max Hayes High School’s Construction Shop, 2211 W. 65^th Street: (L-R) Tenth grade students Lekicha Hicks and Mareona Clemons hold up the artwork they are creating. The students built the frames of the canvases they painted, stretched the canvas, stapled the canvas onto the frames, and built stands to display their artwork.

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN

Thursday, May 19, 2022; Max Hayes High School’s Construction Shop, 2211 W. 65^th Street: (L-R) Tenth grade students Lekicha Hicks works on her painting. Max Hayes Construction Instructors James MacDowell and Jim Mulgrew believe in involving students in building things that meet their interests. Using tools in the Construction Shop, Hicks built the frame for her painting, stretched the canvas, stapled it to the frame and built a stand to place it on.

PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN

Thursday, May 19, 2022; Max Hayes High School’s Construction Shop, 2211 W. 65^th Street: Eleventh Grade Construction program students Anthony Hill and Dalvin Torres demonstrate putting a roofing nail into a mini roof in their school’s construction shop. Twelfth grade students in the program built mini houses in one of the construction labs and the mini roofs in the second lab under the direction of instructors James MacDowell and Jim Mulgrew. A retired member of the Electrician’s Union and a member of the Plumbers’ Union volunteer at the school — helping students with some of the details of constructing a house. Students in the program also go on field trips to different local unions to learn first-hand about the trades. The field trips are led by Construction Curriculum Specialist John Nesta who is retiring at the end of this school year.