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Shaniya Carrington, Makayla Marchese-Reilly, and Joel Edouard, three of the 15 students chosen as Pratt Young Scholars
Pratt Launches Young Scholars Program for High School Students The Department of Art and Design Education and a team of faculty and staff from across the Institute have launched the Pratt Young Scholars program, developed with the support of the Pratt Institute Innovation Fund Award 2013. This four-year scholarship program will provide New York City high school students with access to year-round studio classes, workshops, field trips, and lectures at the Institute. The Pratt Institute Innovation Fund, a strategic partnership between the Office of the Provost and Institutional Advancement, provides seed grants of $20,000 for compelling projects and initiatives conceived by faculty and staff.
Architecture Professor Gia Wolff Wins 2013 Wheelwright Prize Gia Wolff, professor of undergraduate architecture, won the 2013 Wheelwright Prize. The prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, was awarded to Wolff for her proposal to study the design of parade floats around the world. Her project, entitled “Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats,” was chosen from more than 200 proposals submitted around the globe.
Gia Wolff’s 69° South at BAM Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, 2011