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The finished blue tiny home built with Kennebec Cabin Company.

The tiny home shell arriving on a trailer.

Maine Cabin Masters

Making Home Possible.

CES partnered with Kennebec Cabin Company — the crew behind Maine Cabin Masters — and thirty Maine businesses to build a tiny home for a young adult facing homelessness. Youth worked the build: framing, finishing, hauling, deciding.

The project brought real attention to youth homelessness in Franklin County, and gave young people the specific pride that only comes from building something that a person then lives in.

The episode — "Great Things in Small Packages" — brought real attention to youth homelessness in Franklin County, and gave young people the specific pride that only comes from building something that a person then lives in.

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Press coverage

Where we've turned up.

Seven years of coverage — from the local paper that watched us open to statewide business press, television, and the U.S. Senate. Newest first.

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Feb 20, 2026 Portland Press Herald Print · Nancy P. McGinnis Dec 9, 2025 Office of Senator Susan Collins Release May 18, 2025 MaineBiz Print · Laurie Schreiber Feb 20, 2025 The Franklin Journal / Sun Journal Print · Pam Harnden Sep 16, 2024 MaineBiz Print · Laurie Schreiber Sep 2, 2024 MaineBiz Print · Laurie Schreiber Jan 27, 2024 The Daily Bulldog Print · Karolyne Sloma Jan 22, 2024 Maine Cabin Masters / Magnolia Network Video Jan 20, 2024 Kennebec Journal / Central Maine Print 2024 J.D. Irving Lumber Print Sep 3, 2023 The Sun Journal Print · Donna M. Perry Aug 11, 2023 WABI 5 Video · Kodichi Lawrence Mar 3, 2023 The Grateful Messenger / Enlightened Empaths Audio · Denise Correll Nov 24, 2021 The Sun Journal / Franklin Journal Print · Kay Neufeld Nov 12, 2021 WGME 13 Video Oct 10, 2021 The Farmington Flyer Print · Emma Dipompo Feb 25, 2021 The Daily Bulldog Print · Amber Stone Dec 4, 2020 The Franklin Journal / Sun Journal Print · Andrea Swiedom Jul 17, 2020 The Daily Bulldog Print · Amber Stone Jul 10, 2020 WMTW Channel 8 Video · Steve Minich Sep 26, 2019 The Daily Bulldog Print · Amber Stone

The short version.

The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit at 156 Main Street, Farmington, Maine. It began in 2018 as a project inside a Mount Blue High School classroom — created by students, for students — and opened its store in March 2020, days before the state shut down.

CES serves young people aged 10 to 24 through entrepreneurship education, workforce readiness and leadership development, delivered across a retail store, a makerspace, six acres of land at 157 Whittier Road, and a set of youth-run workforce teams. It was the first WIOA worksite in Franklin County.