St. Andrew's Priory kids make scale model of campus

Twenty-seven St. Andrew's Priory summer school students in grades 6-8 are learning how an architect designs a major building project.
They're building an architectural scale model of the campus of Hawaii's oldest all-girls school. When it's done it will be encased in glass in the school library.
Students are snipping, cutting, shaping and gluing elements to replicate Kennedy Hall and even the nine-foot coral cross inside the building's courtyard. Their work includes other academic buildings, the athletic building and Queen Emma Square.
"They have to do measurements with a tape measure on site, do sketches and build a model to scale," said Janice Miyoshi-Vitarelli, a registered architect who is teaching the class. "They need cutting skills, measuring skills, and problem-solving skills."
Miyoshi-Vitarelli said the students took photos and did sketches of the building to capture windows, landscaping and architectural details that make Priory unique.
Because the scale of the model is supposed to be only 3/32 of an inch, Miyoshi-Vitarelli said she did not expect the students to show great detail.
"But some students are really getting to understand the scale and are having fun creating toothpick people, miniature benches and plants with colorful flowers," she said.
Priory's summer school, which also offers innovative classes like crime scene investigation and claymation, ends on Friday (July 22).

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