Morgan Academy has a new place to teach students, thanks to one of their own.

On Thursday, junior Harrison Adams showed off Morgan’s new Clyde Stamford Outdoor Classroom near the banks of the Alabama River.

Adams completed the service project to become an Eagle Scout, saying he wanted to add something new to the school that has given him so much.

“I thought it would be a great way to benefit my school with an outdoor classroom,” he said. “I hope the school uses it, and it’ll be a different way for students to learn.”

Over 120 hours were put into engineering the classroom, complete with bench seating for 40-50 students, a dry erase board, birdhouses and raised plant beds for gardening. The learning environment also includes crepe myrtle, Japanese maple and sawtooth oak trees.

Adams said he will now turn the classroom and gardening over to the school.

“The plants we’re going to plant depends on what classes want to plant out here,” he said. “It doesn’t matter to me. It’s not mine anymore.”

In January, construction of the classroom began. Harrison received help from his father Bart, members of Boy Scout Troop 46, scout leaders and others volunteers. Donors Bubba Stough of Builder’s Supply, Scott Egbert of Plantation Tree Company, Si Gresham of Screenco and Home Depot helped sponsor the project.

Adams named the classroom after his ninth-grade science teacher Clyde Stanford.

“It’s an honor,” Stanford said. “It’s a marvelous teaching tool. Harrison is an excellent young man, and a joy to teach.”

His mother, Stacey Adams, isn’t surprised by her son’s accomplishment.

“I’m really not surprised,” she said. “He has such a bright future, and I’m real proud to be his mom. I can’t wait to see what great things will happen to him.”