Murtaugh High School AG Shop Nearly Complete

Murtaugh, Idaho ( KMVT-TV / KSVT-TV ) The Murtaugh school district is making room for the future, which involves demolitions and new construction.

To make room for a new elementary school addition to the middle and high schools, the old agriculture shop had to come down.

The new shop will be home to all AG Science and mechanical classes.

"Here in Murtaugh we do a combination of mechanics and science, so currently I teach animal science, plant science and introduction to agriculture. And on the other end, mechanics, we have small engines, beginning welding, advanced welding and agriculture fabrication, said Tyler Johnson, the schools AG Science teacher.

When entering high school, Murtaugh students can choose one of two directions.

"The students have the option to take the business track or AG track, we're probably split down the middle. The introduction to livestock and introduction to plant science are those introductory classes where they find out if that is their passion, or that is something they want to do for a career, so it gives them the opportunity to try all sorts of things out, said Johnson.

The old AG shop was built in the early 1940's and served its purpose.

"Served a lot of people and its done well for us and you always hate to see old buildings go, but it's nice to have new buildings come up and facilitate even more, Said Rod Jones, the schools IT director.

The new AG building is larger than the old one and has room to grow so the school may offer more classes in the future.

"All the science stuff will happen inside the actual classroom. The best part about this is hopefully we will have a greenhouse in a couple of months. Next semester we will change a little bit, we'll have landscape management and we'll have introduction to greenhouse, said Johnson.

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Murtaugh High School AG Shop Nearly Complete