December 18, 2006—A K-12 school in Shungnak, Alaska, recently expanded from a single learning space to eight separate classrooms with the installation of KI’s Genius architectural walls.
Located in a remote village 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Shungnak School currently enrolls approximately 75 students. School officials had made the decision to divide the school’s large classroom into several rooms that would create a better environment for teaching and learning.
KI’s Genius architectural walls were selected because the movable walls provided the flexibility to vary the number and sizes of the classrooms from year to year based on the student population, says the company.
Randy Fabian, an installation supervisor at KI, traveled from Green Bay to Shungnak by commercial and chartered planes–with the last leg of his journey on snowmobileto oversee the project. A crew worked over a weekend to remove filing cabinets, bookcases and other makeshift panels and put the walls in place. The job was completed two days ahead of schedule.
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