Classroom In The Woods: Students Help With Electricity At New Campground

There are lots of things that pose challenges when you’re working out in the field.

Rocks, roots and different types of soils.

Overcoming those variables are among the lessons students from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s (NWTC) Power Distribution program are learning as they help set up electricity at a new campground.

“It really helps us get an understanding of what things will be like once we get out of school and into the real world. It gives us real situations to work with,” said Mason Rice, one of the students working on the project as part of a service learning program.

Students get the experience of working on a real project while at the same time helping out the community.

In this case, it’s lending a heavy-duty hand to the construction of a new 55-plus site campground at the Brown County Reforestation Camp.

For the past three weeks students have helped set up the campground’s electricity and lighting.

“It feels really good to help the community here,” Rice said. “We’re helping them and they’re giving us the experience to actually do something different than just stay in the classroom.”

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