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used to be a staple in schools
across the country.

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While it's making a comeback
these days,

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CBS two's john Elliott took a
trip to PS 1 30 in Queens to check

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out the return of wood shop and
he talked with students and

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teachers and here they are in
their own words,

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we need as humans opportunities
to work with our hands together.

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And this engages students,

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all students and especially the
hard to reach students in ways

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that working on tablets or
worksheets can never achieve.

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I didn't think that in sixth
grade I'd be able to be working

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with wood like this. So having
this opportunity I think is cool.

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This is so important.

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It's so different from the
normal schooling. The more you do it,

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they were very tentative and
nervous at first.

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Now they're a little bit more
outgoing. They're friendlier.

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They seem to want to help each
other out more because it's gonna

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be hard. You're gonna be working
hard,

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but it's gonna get easier than
what you do.

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It looks like you've really got
this nailed what happened?

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This is something that the kids
need.

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It's tactile. It's engaging.

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It applies engineering,
carpentry, mathematics, geometry.

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It's fun because we can learn
without looking at textbooks and

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stuff in math class.

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That writing it all out there,
thinking about it,

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internalizing it over here,
There isn't um applying.

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So it's great.

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It also increases their
executive functioning skills because now

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they're focusing more and they
have to manage their time

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Victoria. Why is this fun?

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Because when you start to feel
so satisfying.

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It's not is when kids can see
things that happen in real life,

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comes to life with the kids
can't wait until 11th grade to learn

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about the benefits of career and
technical education.

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So we're pushed it down into the
sixth grade by making it safe,

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affordable and easy to
implement.

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Maple Wood shop is an East
Orange New Jersey company that come

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up with these brilliant wood
shops on wheels and they have all

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of the gear that the students
need to construct dozens of unique

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projects. You have to come, come
and see it.

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You have to feel the excitement
in the room.

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It's something that was missing
in the school and now that it's

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here,

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like the kids just love it at
Russell Sage Junior High School in

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Forest Hills, Queens.

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This is john Elliott CBS two
News school is fun, right,

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particularly that it's something
about getting in there using

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your hands, you know, partnering
up with your fellow classmates,

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teammates to work all that you
have something to hold at the end.

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As a result, coming up next