Four trades. One trailer. Six days to turn plywood, pipe, wire, and sheet metal into a mobile bunk house — built by the Scouts who come through the door.
See the build ↓
Scouts don't just watch a demo — they run pipe, pull wire, swing a hammer, and bend sheet metal alongside tradespeople doing the real thing for a living. Every station feeds the same build: a mobile bunk house, framed and finished on site.
Cut, thread, and sweat real pipe. Scouts rough in the water lines that'll actually run in the finished house.
Pull wire, set boxes, land a breaker. Basic code, real tools — no sparks (that's the point).
Frame walls, hang doors, cut a rafter that fits. The bones of the house start here.
Bend, seam, and hang ductwork and flashing. The trade nobody thinks about until it's why the place stays dry.
This year we're building it for real: a mobile bunk house on a trailer, framed, sheeted, wired, and plumbed by the Scouts who come through Skilled Trades. Built to move where it's needed — it stays at the Summit afterward and gets used year-round.
Skilled Trades Director Matthew Pigg checks in every morning and evening — plus a few of the tradespeople and Scouts making the build happen. Recorded on site, written up here.
New stories post here twice a day — recorded on site with Matthew Pigg and the crew, then written up.
Scan the code posted at Skilled Trades and add your shot. Every photo is reviewed before it goes up — nothing posts automatically.
Point your camera at the code, snap what you shot, done.
