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The Cedar Rapids Student Built House is a year-long residential construction trades program offered to Seniors and Juniors in the Cedar Rapids Community School District. The Cedar Rapids Student-built House is a program offered by the Cedar Rapids Community Schools which offers juniors and seniors the chance to learn construction skills while building a single family house.
07/23/2026
🏗️ Breaking ground on the 2026-27 Cedar Rapids Student Built House!
Every year we get to watch high school students turn 2x4s and blueprints into a real home from the ground up — and this year’s project is officially underway!
Can’t wait to watch this year’s group get after it. Follow along as the frame goes up! 🔨
Shebetka Enterprises LLC
05/16/2026
05/16/2026
Great Company! Couldn’t have asked for a better partner for the grading and sod on this years Student Built House!
Student Tour Tuesday is a little late this week… because we’ve been BUSY. 🙌
The Cedar Rapids Student Built House is in the homestretch — final clean on deck, and then we open the doors to YOU!!Public open house: May 13 | 3:30–6:30 PM. Stay tuned! 🔨🏡
Home #53 Address:
6718 Lauder Lane NE
Cedar Rapids 52411
Happy Student Tour Tuesday! 🏠✨
We’re in the home stretch at the Cedar Rapids student-built house — floors are being uncovered, touch-ups are happening, the screened-in porch is getting wrapped up, and we’re prepping for the last cleaning. The finish line is so close!
Huge shoutout to Klingler Painting & Decorating Inc for their incredible work on this home — it is looking beautiful! 🙌
Follow along so you don’t miss the big reveal! 👀
Introducing Student Tour Tuesday! 🏗️ Each week we’ll be giving you an inside look at our Cedar Rapids Student Built House — and this week, our students are installing a beautiful, maintenance-free deck. These kids never cease to amaze us with the incredible work and dedication they bring to every single detail of this home. A huge shoutout to Adam from Millwood Ranch Custom Wood Crafts for coming out and being a part of this build! Stay tuned as our students turn blueprints into reality. 🙌🔨
01/22/2026
The student house project reached a significant milestone today, with our students working alongside Klingler Painting & Decorating Inc to prime the walls and ceilings. Upon equipping themselves with tyvek suits, the students efficiently learned the operation of paint sprayers and managed to prime most of the main floor walls within the class. The project will progress tomorrow with the application of the final ceiling and closet paint, and subsequently, the first coat of wall paint. The paint materials being used are all 0 VOC, proudly supplied by Benjamin Moore and Klinger Paint & Interiors. Klingler Painting & Decorating Inc Klinger Paint & Interiors
01/18/2026
In the last two weeks since students returned from winter break, we've finished insulating and learned to hang and tape drywall like pros with Precision Drywall. We've picked up some new tricks and methods along the way. Next week, we'll be kicking off the painting process with Klingler Painting, and once that's done, we'll dive into installing LVP flooring on both levels of the house.
12/27/2025
This past week our students were gifted some awesome apparel and construction workwear supported by Acme Tools, various national construction vendors,TRUEWERK, and the pFoundation for the trades grant. Each student recieved a new CR student house t-shirt, a pair of T2 Truewerk pants, lined gloves, a stocking cap, and a CR Student house Logo’d M2 Truewerk Hoodie. This is a fantastic start for students professional construction apparel and it is a great form of winter PPE for each of them to wear this winter as well! Thank you to everyone who made this possible for our students and our program! We handed this bag of goodies out on Friday just before students left for the Holiday break!
On another note! We also were able to officially bless the house with a Broken Hammer… It has become a CR Student House Tradition over the ladt 8 years to break Mr. Loughs wooden Stiletto hammer each year. The students and Mr Lough use and misuse the wooden handle hammer throughout the framing process and once broken we label the house and year on the handle and hang it in the school shop with other years hammer handles! It is a goal each year for the students to be the one to accomplish this!