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Nonprofit assists school construction program By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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At left, Zach Fields with the nonprofit Construction Ready, guides a student in Roswell High School’s construction program to operate a saw. That day, students were learning how to construct headers.
Zach Fields, vice president of Construction Ready’s K12 program, holds up a finished header for students in Roswell High School’s construction program.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Zach Fields, vice president of the nonprofit Construction Ready’s K12 program, prepped a class of about 20 students at Roswell High School recently to construct headers – boards placed above doorways and windows. “You do not want them to fall on your grandma, first of all,” Fields, sporting a measuring tape on his front pocket, told the class. “We got to make sure that doesn’t happen. We got to build things the right way.” When a teacher resigned at the beginning of the school year, the program’s 100 students were left to a rotating roster of substitute teachers assigning book work, rather than hands-on projects. Fields stepped in during the second week of classes, leading sessions almost every day to fill the role. He’s with the nonprofit Construction Ready, whose mission is to provide statewide support to educational programs in the architecture and construction career sector. Support could mean teacher training, connecting programs to industry partners and providing materials, and in rare cases, providing a teacher. Construction Ready serves 20,000 students across 200 workforce development programs. Construction education support extends to the elementary school level. Fields said there are 600 students a year taking construction at Mountain Park Elementary School, and some of those kids go on to participate in the program at Roswell High. “There’s just so much joy in building and creating something,” Fields said. That day, Fields broke students into groups to begin their work constructing headers. Students measured and cut wood, using an industrial saw, in the school’s construction
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Photographer Anna Rumiantseva stands in front of her photographs at the opening night of the exhibition.
Photographer showcases Ukraine art By LUKE GARDNER newsroom@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta City Hall turned a conference room into a photography exhibition this summer, featuring the work of local photographer Anna Rumiantseva. “Mariupol: The City that Doesn’t Exist,” featured a collection of 18 photographs of various buildings throughout the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which is currently occupied by Russia. The exhibition ran from June 10 to Sept. 11. “These pictures I took a couple of years before the war started,” Rumiantseva said. “We traveled with my son every summer. It was a beautiful city and I love it. … Everything I show here is gone.” Russia annexed Mariupol in May 2022 after attacks that started in
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