Southeast Technical College will open the Wells Fargo Homebuilding Lab to provide additional hands-on construction experience for students. The campus expansion is intended to connect technical education with regional workforce needs and help more graduates enter high-demand construction careers. A new lab is under construction and is planned for completion in spring 2027. The college already trains students through community partnerships, including Habitat for Humanity, but the timing of homebuilding needs did not always match students’ learning schedules. With local partners, students will build housing units for community use on campus, applying skills in real time as they progress through coursework. Projects will run over the year to support both training and housing needs.
"Starting next spring, students at Southeast Technical College won't only learn how to build homes in the classroom; they will help meet housing needs in the Sioux Falls area while training for high-demand construction careers."
"Cory Clasemann, president of Southeast Technical College, said the home-building lab is intended to align the college's technical education programs with regional workforce needs. "It's our responsibility as a community partner to continue training more people in this field and help more graduates enter the workforce," Clasemann said. "That way employers have the workers they need to continue building and growing the city.""
"Southeast Technical College already offers hands-on construction training through community partnerships, including with Habitat for Humanity. But Clasemann said the new on-campus lab will allow students to apply skills in real time as they progress through coursework. "We have had a relationship with Habitat for Humanity for many years," Clasemann said. "But the pace at which Habitat needed homes built did not always align with where students were in the learning process.""
"In conjunction with local partners, students will help build housing units intended for community use. By bringing construction projects onto campus, he said, students will be able to apply new skills in real time as they progress through coursework before the projects contribute to meeting community housing needs. "They'll be able to build over the course of the year and apply what they're learning immediately," Cl"
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