Midland, Texas — The West Texas Food Bank partnered with the West Texas Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to host “CANtribute” at the Midland Park Mall.
This project is a design-based food drive for Midland High School students in their problem-solving engineering class.
“Midland High School students who are engineering students are taking cans and building cool structures out of those cans,” says Brent Oden, program director at the West Texas Food Bank. West Texas Food Bank.
By participating in this project, students will be able to use the skills they learned in class to gain real-world experience while also helping their communities by raising awareness about hunger.
Jessie Ortiz, CTE teacher at Midland High School, said: I said to them, “Okay, give me the algebra and the geometric equations.” I was like, “Yeah, it’s a real-world application. Let’s go, let’s do it.”
The American Institute of Architects was happy to give these students the opportunity to be creative.
“This is very nice because we were doing this as just an architecture and engineering company in our office. We were designing sculptures and building sculptures, but it’s not really a learning opportunity. was,” he said. “But when I approached Mr. Ortiz to do it in his class, he was thrilled,” said RJ Lopez, president of the West Texas chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
The sculpture exhibition runs until May 19th.
There is also a trash can nearby where the community can put canned food they want to donate.