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“From a teacher’s standpoint,” says Chris Georgules, “I don’t think the little things like having plenty of space, having a comfortable temperature, and having everything available and working can be overstated. When those things aren’t there or aren’t working well, it can make the learning environment fairly uncomfortable, thus leading to poorer student attention, and/or disruptive to the fluidity of a class lesson, causing a carefully crafted lesson to be altered or completely aborted in the middle of a class period.”
While we are enjoying this wonderful new learning environment, we are also focusing on our next improvement, the creation of a state-of-the art STREAM Center (Science Technology Robotics Engineering Art Math). Construction is slated to begin over the summer of 2016 with completion by fall 2017, just in time for our 60th Anniversary Celebration.
One of the most innovative and forward thinking groups on campus is our Robotics Team. They proudly call themselves Barn2Robotics due to a very challenging working space—our original Barn! Regardless of the physical limitations of their workshop, this innovative group won a regional competition recently in Sacramento. The competition for 2015 was called “Recycle Rush” in which Robotics competed by building stacks of storage totes. The STREAM Center will provide this exceptional group with the big, open, flexible space necessary to fully collaborate and exercise their creativity and critical thinking skills. In addition to the new Robotics Lab, the STREAM Center will also provide a tool room, 3 science labs with attached classrooms, 4 art studios, and a computer and digital lab.
We continue to be grateful to the families who have supported these very necessary improvements. Because of you, we are able to fulfill our vision of providing our students the right tools to reach their maximum potential. What are we building? Thanks to you—we are Building Ingenuity.
Best,
Siobhán Lawlor, Director of Development
We continue to be grateful to the families who have supported these very necessary improvements. Because of you, we are able to fulfill our vision of providing our students the right tools to reach their maximum potential.
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