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Drury University Helps Build Extreme Makeover Home
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Story Created:
Jul 6, 2009 at 11:03 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 6, 2009 at 11:12 PM CDT
Drury University students have left their mark on the "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" twice.
So when ABC announced it was coming to the Ozarks a third time, it wasn't hard to connect the dots on the blueprint.
The first two projects brought a couple unexpected twists to the student and professor volunteers.
Long before that moment on prime time ABC network coverage thousand of volunteers worked day and night to complete the makeover of Camp Barnabus.
“It's crazy intense but it is a blast, 24 hours a day you're there.... there's a buzz... it gives you goosebumps,” said Associate Professor of Architecture Traci Sooter.
She and about 20 students were part of the construction crowd.
“It is cool to get to take my students out there to be a part of that... that's something that is life changing for them,” she said.
But their first experience with the show at wasn't without its surprises.
“We were new, we didn't know what to expect and we had no material,” she said.
Same story with Drury's second appearance on Extreme Makeover in Murfreesboro, Arkansas where students had to redesign a barn overnight to make it smaller..
“I had a couple students pull an all nighter, drew something about a third of the size.. they (ABC) said go. we now have 24 hours, a cocktail napkin and random wood to build this barn,” Traci said.
Still Traci says the experience is invaluable for an architecture student to see a project go from blueprint to fully built.
This will be Jared Hoffpauir's first chance to be a part of it. We tried to get him to tell us what they're building.
Joe Daues: Tell me what you're building.
Hoffpauir : It's a secret.
Daues: Give me a hint.
Hoffauir: no hints.
Daues: Would you get a F if you did?
Hofgfauir: Probably...
Drury is also offering more of its services to the family.
“It has been such an incredible learning experience for our students... we are offering scholarships if they have any kids so they can go to school at Drury.
Drury volunteers still need help with connectors. Things like screws, bolts, nuts and nails.
If you can help call 873-7288.
You don't have to be an architecture student to help.
Any member of the Drury student body and staff may volunteer.
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