Lowell High Guitar Project Teaches Art And Skill

Lowell High School offers a woodshop class where students design and build their own guitars.

In high school, I took a woodshop class, but we didn’t do much. I would’ve been thrilled to build a guitar. A select number of students have a great opportunity at a West Michigan high school.

Woodshop Class When I Was Growing Up

I attended a small-town school on the East side of Michigan and took a woodshop class in high school. Although I learned to operate various wood-cutting tools, we spent most of the time cutting up scrap wood, which seemed like a waste of time.

We built a box to store personal items in. I still have mine, but it is filled with some school memorabilia. We also built a toolbox. It looked like the one circled in the photo above; anyone could have made it without the teacher's instruction.

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Perhaps my shop teacher wasn’t well-versed in woodworking, since he spent the rest of the day teaching history, but Lowell High School has a much more advanced woodshop program.

Woodshop Class Strikes A Chord At Lowell High

According to WOOD TV, Chris Phillips, a technology teacher at Lowell High School, picked up playing guitar during the pandemic and also learned to build them. Phillips thought that would be a great idea to take back to the classroom.

Each year, 15 engineering students at Lowell High School are selected to design and build their own guitars. The students do not have to know how to play the guitar; it is just a project. One student who didn't play the guitar gave it to a musician at her church.

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The class has become so popular with the students that there is a waitlist.

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