/// STUDENT PROFILE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AMIDST NEW DIRECTION Zach Pearl didn't plan on going to college. And yet right now, he is a second-year student in the Residential Remodeling Technology program at Thaddeus Stevens College, one of four programs that has doubled in size at the start of this school year. He expected to finish high school and then immediately enter the workforce as an electrician. Those plans changed when his high school class toured the College's campus. When he saw the remodeling program, he realized there was an opportunity to strengthen his abilities and gain experience that could make him more marketable with broader opportunities and higher earning potential. Zach saw the degree program as an opportunity to expand his skills beyond the addition of carpentry or plumbing, adding in mastery in many different areas of remodeling to gather a wide variety of abilities, he says. " It was either this school or no school. They had just what I needed for two years, " Zach said. In the Residential Remodeling Technology program, students spend the first year learning carpentry. During their second year, his cohort is designing and building a kitchen and bathroom. For Zach, a highlight of the program has been engaging in the intensive carpentry work and collaborating with his second-year classmates 21 : Tower Magazine