Loomis Helps Local Family Through PolyHouse 2010

Seven years ago, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Graduate students at CalPoly started a project to help local families in need. If you have ever watched ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition, this will sound familiar. The Poly House blog described this year’s project as “28 students, 6 weeks of planning, 6 days of construction, $160,000 fund raising goal, a deserving family in the community all combined to produce a renovated home and a project management “learn-by-doing” experience.” The recipients of the renovation this year was the Todd family, whose son...

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