When walking into the cafeteria, students are now greeted with a winter wonderland, thanks to the engineering students. The students, taught by Jeff Collier, recently built an igloo in the “Bear Square” outside of the cafeteria to continue making the school more and more festive for the holiday season.
The idea of the igloo came about over a year ago when activities director Stacey Smith found the craft online. Smith said she decided to work smarter, not harder, and recruit Collier’s engineering class.
“I helped by glueing the jugs together into pairs of two,” senior David Paul said. “We used these as the main building blocks of the igloo. I also helped with glueing the jugs into place on the igloo.”
The igloo is made with hundreds of gallon cartons as bricks, stacked in shifted patterns to make a solid base. Robin Laurence provided many of these jugs.
“The igloo was made with jugs of all kinds like milk, sweet tea and water,” Paul said. “Then we took those jugs and made them into pairs of twos and then we laid out the bottom based and built our way up, making it into an igloo shape and then adding any extra details we saw fit.”
Many students contributed their own ideas such as adding an entrance to the igloo to add more character. The igloo is even complete with Christmas lights.
“The part I liked the most was that we got to work together as a team,” Paul said. “We got to make an awesome igloo, too.”
