When he’s not working shifts as a custodian at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Luis M. Toribio — a native Spanish speaker — takes classes on the weekends through Harvard to hone his English skills and practice pronunciation. Two years ago, he said, he struggled to communicate in […]
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A nonprofit organization called BuildStrong Academy that trains construction workers is expanding nationally, in response to a labor shortage that has prevented home builders from meeting demand. Home-building activity has increased in the past two years as historically low mortgage-interest rates and a rise in remote work have fueled home-buying […]
If you’ve ever wondered what 27 high school girls with access to power tools might create, the answer is something considerably bigger than a birdhouse. The teenagers, all students in an Engineering for Social Good class at Concord’s Carondelet High School have been learning to build houses — and then […]