GRAND LAKE, La. (KPLC) - It’s not every day you see high school students building an electric vehicle. STEM students at Grand Lake are demonstrating that they have the skills to build a road-worthy ride from start to finish.

“It’s just crazy. I wasn’t expecting this when I signed up for this class. I was expecting smaller versions of vehicles and stuff like that. It’s insane to be able to work on something this big for a small school like us,” student Mason Dupuie said.

The students have been working on building a “Switch Lab” electric vehicle since the beginning of the school year.

STEM teacher Joshua Fitkin says the idea came from a Facebook advertisement two years ago, and he wanted his students to bring the idea to life.

“This group of kids - a lot of them were hand-picked based on

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