Some Butler Vo-Tech students will be featured on a cable channel show for their work rebuilding a barn into a home.
The Butler students will be featured on the show Barnwood Builders, which is based on a West Virginia company that buys old barns and log cabins then they restore the structure. The episode will focus on a 280-year-old barn that originated from Reading, PA but is now being built in West Sunbury.
For the Butler students being on TV was a different experience but exciting.
“It was very different having never done anything like this or ever being on TV before, I had know idea what I was doing,” Butler Vo-Tech student Payton Murray said. “The TV crew was very helpful. They helped me with a lot of things I didn’t know what to do about.”
Ron Sankey is the building construction teacher at the vo-tech, and says the course is a great opportunity to learn lifelong skills.
“I didn’t think I would ever see the ‘lightbulb factor’ but when they get it I know I did my job,” Sankey said. “It’s similar to building something, because it is tangible. This is a tangible skill that I gave a kid that they’ll always have.”
The episode debuts on the Magnolia Network tonight at 9 p.m. and can be streamed on HBO Max and viewed on Armstrong Cable.
To listen to the entire interview, you can go to WISR680.com under the programs tab.
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