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Crook County’s old fairgrounds is now home to Central Oregon Community College鈥檚 high-tech open campus building, designed to provide higher education for local residents.

The new 12,000-square-foot building is the result of a long, collaborative process. Steele Associates Architects gathered input from Central Oregon Community College, Crook County and Oregon State University on every phase of the project, from selection of the site to design of the building’s many features.

The building has classrooms, a computer lab and a teaching kitchen to provide a range of classes. Each classroom is outfitted as a 鈥渟mart classroom,鈥� with high-tech and multimedia equipment that lets instructors teach in new ways and provides students with convenient and innovative learning technologies.

The building is green as well as high tech, with high-efficiency heating and cooling systems, solar panels for electricity and water-conserving plumbing features.