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Caroline Moore & Cookeville High School's Randy Mansell

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Caroline Moore sits down with Randy Mansell, the carpentry teacher at Cookeville High School. Randy talks about where he's from and how he got started in carpentry, what the challenge was like for coming up with a lesson plan and dealing with teenagers
while building a house for class, and describing the home that's being built leading all the way up to a public auction at the end of the year. 

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