{"id":11658,"date":"2012-11-09T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:44:45","slug":"hawaii-cc-carpentry-program-builds-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/09\/hawaii-cc-carpentry-program-builds-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u02bbi <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> carpentry program builds futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJAnDoagaaw?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every year, like clockwork, the <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/carpentry\/\">carpentry students<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College<\/a> in Hilo, are hard at work, in and out of the classroom. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We get the hands-on and class assignments. We learn inside the class and then come outside and do it step by step,&rdquo; said carpentry student <strong>Kai Respicio<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;High school you learn the basics, but over here you learn everything from foundation to finish,&rdquo; agreed fellow carpentry student <strong>Jacob Ramos<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The two-year program has a maximum of 16 students per year who can earn either a certificate of achievement, or an associate degree if they take the required core classes. Each year, the class builds a family home on Hawaiian Homelands. So far, the students in the college&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.hawaii.edu\/modelhome\/\">model home project<\/a> have constructed 45 homes. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They have the hands-on experience of building a model home,&rdquo; said carpentry professor <strong>Gene Harada<\/strong>. &ldquo;All the way from the foundation to actually doing the framing, the roof applications, sidings and also the fabrication of the custom built cabinets for each house.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it is very important,&rdquo; said Respicio. &ldquo;You get the experience before you go outside and you know like half the stuff that you do.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Students from the college&#8217;s drafting, electrical, diesel and agriculture programs also gain valuable real world experience. Experience that immediately pays off for the carpentry students. If they are accepted into the carpenter&#8217;s union, they are automatically credited with a thousand work hours and four hundred classroom hours. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hope this is going to lead me, to the future, to be one contractor,&rdquo; said Ramos. &ldquo;That&#8217;s my ultimate goal.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College carpentry program helped Harada achieve his goals. He graduated from the program in 1975. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Actually, when I was here, I did help build number 11 house for the program,&rdquo; said Harada. &ldquo;Based on what I went through and what I did in the industry, it&#8217;s a great skill to learn, especially going into industry with the knowledge that you obtained from this program.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I love this program,&rdquo; said Ramos. &ldquo;I like stay here a couple more years if can.&rdquo; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s two-year carpentry program can earn either a certificate of achievement or an associate degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[346,19,61,431,71,56],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-carpentry","tag-construction","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-model-home-program","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134791,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions\/134791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}