About me
Andrew Vrieze won the Harbor Freight Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2023 and teaches carpentry at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument, Colorado. He describes himself as a “man of many trades and a master of none.” Growing up, he would spend time in the cabinet shop with his father and grandfather, framing houses with his uncle, doing concrete flat work with church friends, and gaining invaluable skills from these experiences. After taking trades classes in middle and high school, he earned a degree in teaching from the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minnesota and then earned his masters degree in Administration and Leadership from the University of Phoenix in 2005. In 2017, he also earned a certification in CTE STEM in 2017 and a CTE construction and architecture certification in 2020.
