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Take a workshop this winter and learn a new skill or begin training for a career that you truly love. Search the workshop calendar and/or learn more about full-time programs.

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Thu. 16 February . 2012

Information session for full-time programs
Sat. 18 February . 2012

Advanced techniques in furniture making

Sun. 19 February . 2012

Adult/child woodworking
Fri.-Mon.. 2-4 March . 2012

Rare books and calligraphy

Sun. 18 March . 2012

Adult/child woodworking: make a flowerbox
Sun. 25 March . 2012

Shaker oval boxmaking

Recent News / Featured Workshops

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    Window Sash Restoration

    Preservation carpentry first-year students pulled the window sashes from the First Parish Church in Dorchester recently. The students will restore the sashes as part of the church's $5.2 million dollar renovation.

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    Posted: February 5, 2012

  • Good News for Carpenters and Cabinet Makers

    Wall Street Journal article highlights job growth for some fields.

    The January 6, Wall Street Journal article summarizes data from the Department of Labor annual average unemployment figures for 2011. Unemployment remains significant in many fields including construction-related professions but the unemployment rates dropped significantly for some including cabinet makers and carpenters. Good news for NBSS alumni in those professions. Read the article online.

    Posted: February 5, 2012
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    Happy Birthday Pauline!

    Pauline Agassiz Shaw, founder of North Bennet Street School was born Pauline Agassiz on February 8, 1841 in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
    Her mother died when she was seven and she and her siblings (a brother and a sister) spent two years with relatives before joining their naturalist father, Louis Agassiz in Cambridge, where he had recently been appointed a professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University and married Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, an educator and co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. Read more about Pauline on the NBSS website. And read more about the early days of NBSS on the North Bennet Street School's new Wikipedia page.

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    Posted: February 5, 2012
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    Two-time Table Hockey Champ, Alan DiPesa

    For the second year, violin making and repair student Alan DiPesa claimed first prize and the treasured trophy at the annual Table Hockey Championship game. The competition was friendly and fierce between Alan (left) and fellow finalist Bradley Wolcott. NBSS president Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez (center) officiated and half-time entertainment was provided by the all-school-one-day band and was accompanied by a flyover of multicolored paper airplanes.

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    Posted: January 11, 2012

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