They dug the first hole April 12. From then on, about 20 students in the club worked after school from 3 to 5 p.m. two or three days a week, with instruction from Jeff Moore. They finished May 12.

Along the way everyone learned a lot. Jeff Moore said, ‘‘They learned how to work together as a team and how to take something from nothing, to start with just an idea and see it through to a finished project.

‘‘Some of the students them had never even picked up a hammer before,’’ Avery said. ‘‘They had to learn about safety and using tools and how to hammer and working together.’’

Avery said learning trust took some time. One student hammered a nail while the other student held the board. ‘‘It was funny how at first they wouldn’t do it but as they kept on working, after while you could see it didn’t matter.’’

Avery and Allen hammered their share of nails, too. But when it was time to put up the lattice siding on the rails, Avery got a perk for being a teacher. Moore used an air hammer, which the students weren’t allowed to handle but Avery got to take a turn with it.

She and Allen and the students can all identify their personal work. ‘‘Mine is on board number three and nine and the rail,’’ Avery said. ‘‘We all know where our little crooked nails are. It is not perfect, but it is safe. It’s been inspected.’’

They still have to make the bridge handicapped accessible by leveling ground to where it meets the bridge, then put down gravel and make angled ramp.

After all this, the students decided after studying about land surfaces that they needed to reclaim land they messed up building the bridge, so they are going to scatter wildflower seeds.

The club hasn’t come up with a name for the bridge yet but Avery said it means a lot to all of them. ‘‘This is something we can all look at for a long time and be proud of,’’ she said.

Jeff Moore agreed. ‘‘We’re real proud of them. We think it turned out to be beautiful.