PHOTO GALLERY: Rock Bridge, Hickman students build home

Jacob Kingsley, a senior at Rock Bridge High School, confers with the director of the advanced construction class, Bill Mitchell, on Lynn Street on April 12. Mitchell oversees students throughout the entire process of construction.   |  Grant Hindsley

Jacob Kingsley, a senior at Rock Bridge High School, cuts siding for a house on Lynn Street on April 12. Kingsley is helping to build the house as part of an advanced construction class in conjunction with the Columbia Community Development Corp.   |  Grant Hindsley

Sarah King, a senior at Rock Bridge High School, applies finishing touches to the paint in the family room of a new house on Lynn Street on April 12. The students are building the house for the Columbia Community Development Corp., and it will then be sold as low-income housing.   |  Grant Hindsley

Stone Midgyett, right, a junior at Hickman High School, laughs while Tra-vion Armstrong, also a junior at Hickman, struggles to staple tar paper to the roof of a new house on Lynn Street on April 12. Students from both Hickman and Rock Bridge High Schools are involved in constructing the house for the Columbia Community Development Corp.
  |  Grant Hindsley

Students from Rock Bridge and Hickman high schools work on a house as part of an advanced construction class on April 12 on Lynn Street. The house was built by students over the course of several semesters.   |  Grant Hindsley

*ElTonya Rhoades stands in front of her home April 12. In an effort to rebuild the neighborhood and bring in first-time low-income homeowners, Columbia Community Development Corp. built Rhoades' home, where she has been living since July 2011.   |  Colleen Archibald