The woodshop is part of the ‘makerspace’ at Arlington High School./ Tony Moschetto photos
The quality of work produced by the students of the independent-study woodworking class at Arlington High School is so good that one might think the items were constructed by highly trained – and much older – professional tradespeople. Their creations are installed and used, not only inside the high school itself, but also at the local food pantry.
At AHS, their benches are in the connector, and their sets of stairs lead onto the stage in the auditorium.
At EATS Market — part of Arlington EATS, at 117 Broadway — where food is available for free to ‘guests,’ or all those who need it, the bins the students created and then donated hold boxes of fresh produce.
More projects are in the works, which aligns with the program’s goal — creating something from an initial idea to a…
