It was a special moment for Rocky View students in this year's Building Futures Program.

The students held their celebration night on June 7th at their newly built houses on Ravenstern Point.

One of the students, Jaelen Kelly reflects on her favourite moment of the program, when a trades worker offered her a job.

"I got to have that experience of having someone think, 'oh my goodness, you're good enough to work in the trades, you're better than some of the people working in the trades, I'd love to have you on the team.' That was probably one of my highlight moments."

Kelly and the rest of the Grade 10 students from W.H. Croxford, George McDougall and Bert Church worked with local home builder McKee Homes and several trade workers to design and help build their houses.

It was more than just the houses that the students built as they also made life goals which are placed in different rooms. They also created a Thank You mural and a small chicken pen complete with two birds right in the backyard.

The program even caught the attention of Provincial Education Minister David Eggen who toured the project at the beginning of May.

Kelly says it's hard to imagine that the year is done, especially given where they started.

"This was dirt when we got here. We had to survey, we had to excavate...you would never think of it when you're standing here, but going back through all those memories it's really crazy to think that we put all this together, it was us. We did all the hands on work."

As for students considering the program for next year, Kelly's best advice is echoed by all of her classmates who say...go for it!

"Come every day ready to work...you will never get this opportunity again, this is a once in a lifetime chance. Who else can say that they built a house in their Gade 10 year? At 16, 15 years old?"