The inaugural BUILD Academy Dog House Auction took place on Friday, May 10, at Four Rivers Career Center.
The auction consisted of 23 custom built dog houses, which fit the needs of any size dog.
The dog houses were built by sixth-grade students from Washington West Elementary and Campbellton Elementary, with the help of staff and students in the Building Construction program at Four Rivers Career Center.
Overall, the auction raised $2,302.50 from the 23 dog houses. Approximately $7,500 was raised from corporate sponsorships.
All proceeds help fund future BUILD Academy projects.
“It was a big success for the first year of the project. We’ll bring in close to $11,000, which will help fund future BUILD projects,” said Four Rivers Career Center Director Andy Robinson. “The students learned a lot from the experience and were excited to show off their dog houses.”
Photos from the event are below.
The School District of Washington's BUILD Academy (Building Unique and Innovative Learning by Design) is held at Four Rivers Career Center.
BUILD Academy offers an authentic project based learning experience to over 100 sixth-grade students from Washington West Elementary and Campbellton Elementary.
This project based learning model exposes students to possible careers that they may not even knew exist before they enter the BUILD Academy.
The end project is a dog house. However, the true learning occurs when these students use every day standards by means of developing a business plan, designing business logos, drafting the dog house design from scratch and applying math and measuring skills to the actual building of the doghouse.
Click here for the BUILD Academy web page.
