Carson High School Makes Engineering Addition To School
Submitted by Kyle Kunz on Sat, 10/04/2014 - 5:00pm
Carson High School officially opened its new, very modern engineering computer lab Friday. The room's previous purpose was the old weight training facility but with the new addition of the wrestling room the logical place to break ground for the new lab was the old weight room.
The new lab features 25 new computers, hardwood tables, a separate room for small construction and even high quality office chairs. The lab was a part of the $27 million Carson City School District received in a bond. Other additions from that funding included the addition of the wrestling room, the addition to Empire Elementary School and Eagle Valley Middle School, and a variety of smaller projects throughout the district to create space and use energy intelligently.
The funding came from, "a bond in the year 2010. The school district put wheels in motion by asking the voters if they would approve a bond sale and it was really the only mechanism that the schools in the state of Nevada have to build and refurbish school facilities," said School District Superintendent Richard Stokes. He noted it was the voters who made this new addition happen and wanted to personally thank them for the improvements.
The majority of the use for the facility will be for engineering classes. Included with these classes is an option in a new program for students which will allow students who start out freshman year, take the course all four years and by the time they graduate they will be almost guaranteed a full scholarship at a heavy emphasis engineering school. Mr. Bean was the lucky teacher who got to teach this new class and use the new facility first.
These kinds of additions to the school district take time and any new ones are planned in advance, the superintendent said.
"It's going to take a while because once you sell one school bond, you can only spend so much money in such a short amount of time," said Stokes. "In the past we've used community members to survey what is desired or needed as far as school needs and we will gather said people to begin the next brainstorming very soon.
"The actual construction probably won't happen, however, for about another 3-5 years down the road," the superintendent said.
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