September 1, 2025 OSE Apprenticeship Curriculum

2 Week Builder Crash Course 6 more weeks focusing on Topic Area

Topic Areas: Year 1 Focuses on Mastering Construction 1. 20 Builder Trades - learn all the trades involved in house construction from foundation to PV - as you build 2 homes in 8 weeks. 2. House Builder Enterprise - Learn everything around the enterprise ecosystem related to construction: Architecture-Landscape Design-Interior Design 101; Surveying 101, Structural Engineering 101, Soils Engineering 101 - performing soil bearing capacity tests and soil tests; Electrical Design 101- Generating Engineered-Quality Electrical Designs; Generating Architecture Drawings with Open Source Software; Site Elevations, Site Plan, Landscape Plan; setting up a Factory Built-Manufacturing Home Operation. Working with 3rd party inspectors. How to get a General Contractor License, an Electrical License, Plumbing license, and HVAC license. 3. Housing Innovation - Off-Grid Smart Home - Design and Build of a Thermal Storage for Heating and Cooling Using PV; Smart Home Controller 101; Compressed Air Energy Storage 101, Nickel Iron Batteries as the only lifetime design battery. 4. More Machines - Milling Your Own Lumber; Solar Concrete From Limestone; 3D Printed Parts. Using Thus, i

This cycle repeats every 2 months, with 5 cycles per year, and 6th cycle is vacation where students can work, rest, or participate in field trips: industrial tourism to China, school builds, service learning ghetto builds, drone manufacturing for Ukraine, etc.