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Santiago Hills Elementary School
Irvine, CA

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The Geometry of Architecture
Funded Oct 7, 2017
My students cheered when the Geometiles arrived. They couldn't wait to build with them. And I couldn't wait to see their creations come to life.
I cannot begin to tell you what a difference the Geometiles are making in our class. After studying the architecture of the California missions, my students created floor plans of their own missions. Thanks to you and your generous donations, we were able to see the designs come to life with Geometiles. Looking at the architecture of buildings throughout history also allowed students to determine patterns. These patterns became part of our designs for buildings of the future. The varied shapes of the Geometiles and the easy to connect interlocking pieces helped my students' visions come to life.
Thanks to you and your donation, I think some future architects have been born.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Venable
This classroom project was brought to life by Stavros Niarchos Foundation and 3 other donors.

I teach an amazingly inquisitive group of fourth graders who are going to change the world with their intellect and their heart. We spend our days questioning, discovering, and creating. Our classroom is a workshop where learning is celebrated. We are a community of learners who come together each day and through our reading, writing, and problem solving, challenge ourselves to learn new things. We are 21st century learners who use inquiry-based projects that stem from our personal interests to create solutions. Our goal is to make the world a better place through our individual actions as well as our collective class actions. Whether we are building a cardboard arcade to help hurricane victims or writing books that will help fill libraries in underprivileged areas, we are a group striving to use our skills and discoveries for good, to help others. And all the while ours is a classroom where learning is fun.

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