By: Will Zordani
I am Will Z. and I am a fifth grader. I was invited on an awesome field trip with some teachers, principals, and administrators to Chicago. We went to the Merchandise Mart to see furniture and get ideas for The Cube. It was really fun looking at all the furniture. It was really cool stuff. We got to try out and look at all different furniture to see if it would work well in the cube. We met with the architects and the sales people from the different companies. My favorite company was KI and Steel Case because it had tech stuff that would be what we need. The cube needs a lot of cool furniture that is comfortable and you can still get work for class done. There needs to be neat resources for us, especially for recording and editing videos and to make sound recordings. This space is also going to be our new library. Seeing Merchandise Mart helped me to get ideas of what the furniture would be. It also helped the staff to see what students want and need for our new learning environment. Another experience I had was going to the architects firm of Perkins + Will. This was my favorite part of the trip. I got to see the architects office and view of the city. I’d love to work in a place like that some day.