For most people, it’s a bad thing to have your head in the clouds.

But for Dylan Harris, it may just be the brightest future imaginable.

Harris (Carpentry) has lofty dreams – both figuratively and literally. The Whitney M. Young Job Corps student wants to be an architect one day – and Job Corps is starting him on the path to making that dream a reality.

“I’ve always been interested in building,” Harris said. “I was always great with my hands. My granddad, he was a contractor, he was always doing business with architects, but I didn’t know what they were…I started seeing the stuff that they were doing, and it intrigued me.”

And it intrigues him to this day. Harris has started down the road to learning the art and science of architecture – starting with his Job Corps trade.

“Carpentry is a great basis,” he said. “You learn your measurements, you learn your trig, you learn your geometry…Looking at that, plus knowing what can and can’t be built by me actually building stuff, when I get ready to design something, it’ll help me with that.”

But there’s more to architecture too. To help him learn that, Job Corps staff has helped Harris connect with professional architects.

“They gave me a lot of knowledge on it,” he said.

So what’s Harris’ grand design? To build something that, as he put it, stands the test of time.

He said: “Everyone will look at it and go, ‘Dylan Harris built that, great architect.’”