Architecture Students Volunteer at Local Elementary School

New York, NY, July 23, 2002-- Architecture students from the Barnard and Columbia College Architecture major have volunteered their time to do architecture workshops at local schools, day care centers, and community centers for the past few years. This past spring, eight students joined Professor Karen Fairbanks at PS 75, The Emily Dickinson School, a public elementary school on the upper west side, to do a workshop with first graders in Mrs. Correa's dual language class. The architecture students worked in small groups with first graders to design a maze to roll a marble through. This architectural project was chosen to work in collaboration with the first grade‚s science sequence on balls and ramps. Last year the architecture students worked with these same students as kindergartners to design a structure out of gumdrops and toothpicks. In previous years the architecture students have also worked with students from the Red Balloon Day Care (a local daycare at 125th and Riverside Dr.) and Our Children's Foundation (an after hours program for children located on 125th between Broadway and Amsterdam).

For more information, contact Karen Fairbanks, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and head of the Barnard and Columbia Colleges Architecture Program.