Photos: Students try their hand at school design

By: Sam Tenney//October 11, 2016//

Photos: Students try their hand at school design

Sam Tenney//October 11, 2016//

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ZGF Architects teamed up with Portland Workforce Alliance last week to give 55 local high school students a crash course on the architectural field during its annual Career Day. The day’s activities included a presentation by ZGF designers, followed by an architectural tour of downtown Portland and ZGF’s offices.

Students then broke out into groups for charrettes in which they considered the design concepts for a rural elementary school. ZGF employees guided the discussions, in which the students discussed the programming of classrooms, administrative and recreational space. The day concluded with pin-up presentations by each team of their design concepts.

This was the 10^th year that ZGF has teamed with Portland Workforce Alliance, a nonprofit which holds similar events at various employers throughout the region to introduce students to career opportunities available to them in the Portland area.