Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 21

From intricate designing of green technologies,
students also envisioned entire green schools with
multiple energy saving and regenerating mecha-
nisms, including sustainable architecture. Some
even created digital designs of their models.
Middle and high school Design teacher, George
Baxter remarked that the digital designs are excit-
ing as you can see how an entire green school
would work. Baxter’s colleague and also a middle
and high school Design teacher, Richard Watts
noted, “The hard part is getting the models to
work, and it is exciting to see when they do.”
Meanwhile, students were critical about their de-
signs and work. Some of them reflected on how
creative their designs were, but how unfortunate
that it did not work. Trials and errors are all part
of the creative process, and as Mr. Baxter said,
“Hope this project helped them think about their
environment more, and encouraged them to be
more creative, critical and communicative.”
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