On Tuesday members of the QKA Local team for the Open Architecture Classroom Challenge (Chad, Tony and myself) visited the Americorps tutoring and after school program at Meadowview Elementary School in Santa Rosa. We will be working with them to find ways to better use their portable classroom for their literacy tutoring and after school programs. As you can see by these pictures, we have our work cut out for us. Check back later for what our ideas are.
QKA is working on two entries into the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge. It is a design competition sponsored by Architecture for Humanity. The brief description is to work with a class of students and design improvements for their classroom to make it an ideal learning environment.
We have two QKA teams. Team International is headed by Sara Pirahanchi and is working with a photography class in Iran, taught by Sara’s cousin. Team Local is headed by yours truly and is working with the Americorps after school program at Meadowview Elementary, right here in beautiful Santa Rosa, CA.
Submissions are due on June 1, so check back for more details. Here’s the website