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Megan Grasle

School: Lincoln High School

Year: Senior

Our first session was held at Group Mackenzie. Our mentors taught us about bubble diagrams, which led into a general discussion of the design of the floor plan. Our group unanimously decided that our building will include both an industrial wood shop and a more modern type of a digital design lab.

While trying to decide where each of the rooms would be located within the building, the question of the building’s shape came into conversation. We jokingly threw around shapes, but eventually landed on three designs: the bow tie outline, the light bulb, and the classic ‘L’ shape.

I didn’t necessarily like some of the ideas that we came up with, but I went along with it for the sake of the group. Most of us were doing this, but as soon as people starting tuning it out, we ran into a problem.

After much arguing and dismissing of ideas, I think we were all kind of fed up with trying to communicate. Eventually, we all just caved and we ended up with the simplest, most refined idea of the ‘L’ shape. I’m glad that we came to this idea, but I feel like this was a lot more difficult than it needed to be.