If you looked out your classroom windows on the A wing and saw people by the bus entrance building with some unfamiliar objects, have no worries. It’s Mr. Vonvolen’s FOT class building geodesic domes for class.

Mr. Vonvolen has some new toys and he’s helping his students learn a building technique with them. The kids are learning about polyhedron shapes and has them building Geodesic Domes out in the bus parking lot.

Miranda Bengel, a sophomore in Mr.Vonvolen’s FOT class exclaimed, “It’s a bit frustrating that some of the sticks won’t stay in the connecters but overall it is a fun activity and I would do it again!”

Vonvolen has been working on this activity with his students for about three years now, only this year getting the large wood sticks to make life-size domes.

“This gives the kids a constructive building that is an alternative method in building. Some are single frequency domes that are in the shape of Ti-Pis. Others are making two frequency domes which are bit more challenging,” Vonvolen exclaims.