From planks to pride: The local program building boats, confidence and character
The Menomonee River isn’t your typical classroom. Then again, the group of 10- to 12-year-olds who spent a week along its shoreline weren’t your typical class.
These students, and some older teens, were part of a summer program from All Hands Boatworks, a local nonprofit teaching youth — and adults — about the craft of wooden boatbuilding, Milwaukee’s rivers and the Great Lakes. But the learning extends well beyond the water.
“When we’re building this boat, it’s not about building a boat,” longtime volunteer Trent Myers said. "You expand their sense of what they’re capable of achieving.”…
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