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MOn Track with Building Ingenuity
Momentous milestones are ahead for the Woodside Priory School community this year! I hope this issue finds you well rested and ready to take on the challenges and opportunities of 2017!
This month, we dedicate our glorious “Field of Dreams,” the largest landscaping project in the history of the school. Our new front yard is a luscious, verdant green and a beautiful contrast to the regulation red all weather track encircling it. Student involvement in the performing arts increased by ten-fold with the opening of the Performing Arts Center, so we can only imagine how this spectacular setting will impact student participation and Athletics Programs!
The STREAM Center is set in concrete–literally. At the end of the drive, on top of the hill away from the daily operation of school life, Butler Construction is on track to make Father Maurus’ STREAM Dream a reality. The historic Art Building, which over time has housed the school library, a Barber Shop for the monks, history classes, and the student center, was demolished in September. Trees were removed, the site was graded, the foundation was prepared and, in December, the concrete was poured.
Scheduled to open in November, this 12,000 square foot Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Art and Math Center will provide three new science labs with attached classrooms, a Robotics Lab with an open test space, and four new art classrooms with tool and equipment storage areas. We are Building Ingenuity, creating dynamic, flexible spaces for our students to expand their minds and explore possibilities, to prepare them–yes–for a world in need of their gifts and whatever the future requires of them.
Father Martin, Jennifer and Chris Skarakis, Tim Molak, Eileen DiGiorgio, Stephen and Jami Nachtsheim, and Dave Brett witness the Art Building demolition.
Father Martin strikes the first blow on the campus demolition.
HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL!
DEVELOPMENT