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Windsor Forest graduate trained in school carpentry program now working on new high school
Summary
Mara Parker, a 2021 Windsor Forest High School graduate, said skills she learned in the school’s career-technical program and JROTC helped her land a carpentry job with JE Dunn Construction on the new Windsor Forest High School project.
Mara Parker, a 2021 graduate of Windsor Forest High School and a carpenter for JE Dunn Construction, is working on the Windsor Forest New High School project after interning through her school’s career-technical program, a report in the meeting transcript said.
The story matters because it shows a direct pathway from the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System’s CTAE (career, technical and agricultural education) construction lab and JROTC program into paid construction work on a locally significant school project.
Ken Slatz reported that Parker “works for JE Dunn Construction, the general contractor for Windsor Forest New High School.” Parker said of returning to the school community, “My name is literally written within the walls…
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