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THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 6560 Braddock Rd., Alexandria, VA 22312
NOVEMBER 19 , 2014
Veterans Day Nov. 11, 2014
Veterans Day P16
VOLUME 30, ISSUE 3
GO BIG OR GO DOME
Jefferson renovation forges ahead with additional facilties by Stav Nachum cupying was designed ing of the new research News Editor for a different purpose in wing, with high-tech faIt seems that every- 1964 – for a regular high cilities for each of the where you go within the school. I think the com- senior technology labs. school, whether it is the mon areas, new class- This area also included new research and science rooms and new labs will commons areas on both wings or the timeworn better suit the learning stories of the wing and hallways that lack floor styles that we use.” two new staircases with and ceiling tiles, there One of the most recent floor-to-ceiling windows. is ample evidence of the openings is the new bus On the opposite end of renovations that are well depot and parking lot, the school, the chemistry underway. While a few which opened outside of and geosystems wing has more years remain be- Door 8. Buses can now also opened up with simifore the lar commons renovation areas on both is comlevels of that plete, the new wing. next few “It’s wonmonths derful to see promise a plan come both new together afopenings ter five years and deof planning molitions the research of old seclabs,” Oceantions of the ography and building. Geophysical RenoSystems Revation besearch Lab gan in the Director Lisa photo by Stav Nachum spring of The new chemistry wing, located in the back of the building, in- Wu said. “In 2013 with cludes new facilities and old science projects from former students. addition to a target my research compleabout what tion date in the fall is necessary to put of 2016. The school together a marine lab, has not undergone we had meetings with a full-scale renovaarchitects and profestion since 1964, 21 sionals who work in years before it was laboratories around established as a the country. It was magnet school for wonderful that we science and techhad people to encournology. As a result, age our input and inthere are many corporate our wishes. drop students off in a dated areas of the build- more orderly fashion at It was fin-tastic.” ing that needed modern- the current front entrance Over the next few ization as well as several of the school. months, many new openaspects of the school that In terms of office ings and changes will did not correspond to spaces, the new adminis- occur throughout the how studies function at tration wing on the sec- building. Before the end Jefferson. ond floor opened at the of winter break, and per“The conceptual idea beginning of the second haps during Thanksgivof this renovation is to quarter. This wing is com- ing break, the center of redesign the school so prised of the transcript, the building will be vathat it realigns with the student services and ad- cated to allow demolitype of learning that oc- ministrator offices. tion to occur. By the end curs here,” Principal Evan The most celebrated of winter break, the cenGlazer said. “The school opening by students, ter of the building will we were previously oc- however, was the opencontinued on p. 2
“The conceptual idea of the renovation is to redesign the school so that it realigns with the type of learning that occurs here.” - Principal Evan Glazer
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