North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) and its educational
initiative Project BauHow (Bauhaus + Know-How) will support 200 9th through 11th graders in rural North Carolina high schools this fall by providing free computer systems with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software.
This is the third year NCMH’s Project BauHow has donated CAD systems to rural high school drafting classes.
“High school drafting students are the future of architecture,” said NCMH founder and director George Smart. “It is critical that they get better opportunities to learn and master CAD software. Yet most rural North Carolina’s high school drafting students are in families without a powerful, CAD-level computer at home.”
For students interested in a career in architecture, high school drafting classes can’t provide enough class time to achieve the proficiency (or portfolios) required for college. A home system is essential.
The 2015-2016 Project BauHow teachers and schools across North Carolina are:
- · Monica Whitehead, Scotland High School, Laurinburg
- · Kathy Wright, West Montgomery High School, Mount Gilead
- · Daron Atkins, North Surry High School, Mount Airy
- · Mike Brumble, Eastern Alamance High School, Mebane
- · Stephen Herrington, Jacksonville High School, Jacksonville
- · Lori Bostic, Wallace-Rose Hill High School, Teachey
- · Douglas Lewis, Corinth Holders High School, Wendell
- · Steve Brucker, Newton-Conover High School, Newton
- · Tara Barthelmess, Rolesville High School, Rolesville
Later in the school year, the students will test their accomplishments by competing in an NCMH-sponsored design competition. One winner from each school receives a full scholarship to North Carolina State University’s summer Design Camp.
What do the teachers and principals think of Project BauHow? Watch their videos and others at:
http://www.ncmodernist.org/bauhow2015.htm.
For more information on NCMH, go to www.ncmodernist.org.
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