The Walton High School Foundation has begun a fundraising drive to create six sculpture gardens on the new school campus.
The goal is to raise $23,000 by Sept. 1, ideally with each student’s family donating a minimum of $25, in order to fund the first three gardens this fall. Here’s the message that’s being spread across the community:
“Help US GROW THE Walton Gardens! The Sculpture Garden will be the first of the six gardens that will be installed to enhance the learning environment at the new Walton High School. This unique Workshop provides all students and teachers, across all subject areas, access to a permanent, hands-on outdoor learning space, featuring sculptures, crafted from recycled metal, incorporating pulleys, lenses, pendulums, ramps, levers, an auger base for testing student-built Goldberg machines, gyroscopes and a waist-height sculpture of a fractal “tree”, all built on a concrete layout of the golden rectangle. These interactive sculptures provide the basis for our teachers’ design, development and delivery of innovative lessons and experiments, facilitating student explorations of mathematical principles, as they relate to the fields of art, architecture, biology, physics, engineering and mathematics. Lessons formerly taught on paper are transformed through use of this space into dynamic, tangible student experiences, with the potential for fostering creativity and inspiring a deeper, more profound appreciation of relationships between subject areas and students’ daily lives.”
Here’s an online form the foundation has set up to donate or to help volunteer.
