Cory Torppa, a grand prize winner of the 2022 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, and his construction students were recently featured in the ACTE Journal for their skilled work and entrepreneurial spirit.

Using their trades skills, they designed and built a modular pop-up store for a local market and filled it with products produced in Torppa’s classes. Operating the store teaches students about real-world supply and demand, sales tracking, and more.

“The Chinook Shoppe was created to give students an opportunity for real-world experience. They learn about planning, designing, and manufacturing products to meet a high standard and address current market demand,” Torppa told the ACTE Journal. “Art and marketing students work with the engineering design students to create products and to track sales and trends.”

See the full story in the ACTE Journal.