Reeltown High School junior high students are getting a head start on career technical education in a fun way. 

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Sarah Chase / TPI Leighanna Grice, right, with her students Gage Coan, Hamilton Hobbs, Raylee Ragsdale and their coroplast airplane models.

Recently, seventh graders with RHS interventionist Leighanna Grice’s We Built It Better course crafted a coroplast airplane model of an A320 airbus. We Build It Better is provided to schools through Flight Works Alabama. It is an 18-week immersive course meant to expose students to interactive work environments.