5th Grade Trip to DLR Group

What an amazing field trip!  We toured the DLR Group's offices and learned about how engineers and architects work together to design buildings.  Their specialty is designing K-12 schools, but they also design hotels, the KC Speedway, sports complexes, etc.  The students even saw how they use the Sketch-Up program to design 3-D models of their designs.  Then the students worked in small groups to design 3 different rooms of a school and presented them to the group.  As we ate pizza, several of the employees came down and answered the students’ questions.  They talked about what they do each day, the education they need, and important skills (communication, meeting deadlines, and working with others) they need to be successful in their jobs.  I think we definitely have some future architects and engineers in our class! J