SSD’s South Technical High School Construction and Outdoor Maintenance program made several sets of cornhole bean bag toss games for the Dan McLaughlin Golf Tournament to Benefit the Special Education Foundation silent auction. Teacher Paul Heumann says, “When we started we were not sure what to do with them. There were not enough for each student to take one home. One of my students suggested we donate them to a good cause.”
Heumann got in touch with Patty Benner, SEF’s golf tournament coordinator, who thought auctioning them at the golf tournament was a wonderful idea. Heumann designed the games, and the students built them. He says, “Finishing is a time-consuming process, requiring six coats of polyurethane on each board. It takes eight hours to dry between coats.”
Each game is decorated in a Cardinals, Blues or Mizzou theme to encourage bidding to raise money at the auction.
Thank you, South Tech!
If you’d like to bid on the games, visit http://sef2018.givesmart.com.
Other projects of the Construction and Outdoor Maintenance class on the South Tech Campus are:
- Tilling the vegetable garden
- Painting and shelving a storage area
- Building lifeguard chairs, also for a charitable cause
- Trimming the ornamental grasses in the front of the school
- Painting the gates to the student parking lot
- Building a brick sitting area with a park bench next to the front sidewalk
- Filling the new sand box with sand for childcare
- Painting curbs with yellow safety paint
Pictured, from left, are Raelyn Simpson, Grayson Cheever, Kaleb Benford, Mr. Heumann, Kory Hearn, Marshall Capestro and Dominic Crane.