Several local carpentry students were given a special assignment this week build a series of workshops for electrical students at the Pearson Electrotechnology Centre in the Montreal borough of Lachine. The much-needed upgrade at the centre is a chance for students like Hugo Perrier to get some hands-on experience they wouldn t get in a classroom. Perrier helped erect the walls of the new workshops with his fellow classmates Wednesday. “Seeing the physical results and tangible results are very gratifying,” said Perrier, a student from the Chateauguay Valley Career Centre. “Just the walls that we re building today, it didn t take that long and you actually see the walls at the end of the day and say, ‘Oh, we actually built that.’”