Goals
- To provide a hands-on learning path for low-performing students.
- To teach design and vocational skills as creative problem solving.
- To activate a poor and rural community through high school service.
- To complete real-world, built projects with high school students.
- To cultivate a culture of creative capital in a struggling economy.
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Overview
Studio H will be a 1-year high school curriculum for the Bertie County School District in rural North Carolina that combines design thinking, vocational trade training, and community citizenship to equip low-opportunity teenagers with critical creative problem solving skills for life. Over 2 semesters (Fall/Spring), students will collaborate to design, develop, and prototype a built community project (i.e. bus shelters for the school bus system, a co-op greenhouse, or a public park). The following summer, they will be offered paid summer jobs to actually construct the project. Studio H will empower students through team-based hands-on learning, engage educational capacities to the fullest, and provide a diverse skillset for the next generation to access new job markets, improve their community and excel academically in the state's poorest and most racially polarized county. $50,000 will allow us to build out a shop space and pay for the first year's construction materials.
How will the 50K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: This $50,000 will not cover teachers salaries for the two project managers, nor will it cover student wages for the summer term's building phase. | |
| $ 10,000 | Shop and studio building materials |
| $ 20,000 | Tools, machinery, and build-out for shop space |
| $ 20,000 | Construction materials and labor for first built project |
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