The New Mendocino K–8 School:
A Community Dream Realized
Story by Margi Gomez
Contributing editor, Lisa Norman
Here’s a quote from the article the QKA marketing department thoroughly enjoyed: “I think that the new school has a great stage, kitchen, plants, playground, library and classrooms. I think the whole school is awesome. P.S.…It’s totally twenty-first century,” Sofia Seim asserts.
The new Mendocino K-8 campus will be featured on our website in early 2010.
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