Dos Pueblos teacher honored for industrial arts instruction

Harbor Freight rewarded Dos Pueblos industrial arts teacher Chris Mollkoy for his work with the program. His students take on a variety of hands-on projects, including building a tiny house.
Dos Pueblos High School teacher Chris Mollkoy recently won $50,000 in the 2020 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence competition.
The industrial arts instructor doesn’t care much for the attention, though.
He’s just happy working with tools and serving students.
“It’s always weird as a teacher winning an award and receiving compliments,” Mr. Mollkoy told the News-Press. “It’s hard to accept them.”
When he saw the finalists in the competition, he was shocked to be among them.
“These other 50 teachers are amazing, and they are doing such…