MARIE CAVANAUGH, a teacher at STRAC Institute in Providence, pictured in her classroom, is helping match college students looking for housing with homeowners who have rooms to rent. / COURTESY MARIE CAVANAUGH
WARWICK – Marie Cavanaugh knows firsthand the struggles of teaching through a computer screen. The kind of electronics classes the engineer-turned-educator teaches through STRAC Institute, a Providence-based vocational school, are particularly difficult to replicate in distance learning- hands-on labs showing college-aged students how to work with power generators and multimeters are just not the same…