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Metcalf School sixth-graders design, build, and donate a tiny house to homeless shelter village in Bloomington

  • Author By Emily Bollinger
  • July 14, 2025
Photo courtesy of Emily Bollinger, WGLT. Two Metcalf students and their teacher stand in front of their finished tiny home project.
Photo courtesy of Emily Bollinger, WGLT. Maya Sierra, left, and Kayson Link, middle, are two of 26 Metcalf School students who designed and built a tiny house in the makerspace class of Kristi Sutter, right.

Metcalf School sixth-graders designed and built a tiny house in their makerspace class that Home Sweet Home Ministries (HSHM) will put in its new shelter village, WGLT reported.

Makerspace teacher Kristi Sutter said her students came up with the idea in January, before hearing about the shelter village HSHM was already planning.

“The kids put together a pitch to Home Sweet Home and Salvation Army and offered it as a donation, and Home Sweet Home accepted it,” Sutter said. “We kept our (tiny house) pretty basic right now so that it would fit in with the rest of the community that Home Sweet Home had already envisioned.”

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