Roseland University Prep teacher Anna Solano said she had just three minutes to escape her home in the early morning of Oct. 9 when the Tubbs fire roared through her Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa.
In all, eight teachers and 25 families in the Roseland School District lost homes in October’s wildfires, part of the wider toll that claimed hundreds of homes of Santa Rosa students and teachers and more than 5,100 homes altogether across Sonoma County.
Solano teaches the Roseland Prep maker class, which focuses on do-it-yourself projects that emphasize applied learning and the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
But after the fires, they proposed a different lesson plan: Why not design models of home plans to replace the house Solano lost in the fires?
Students are working on six different designs to potentially replace the home Solano lost, with the floor plans mapped out first as blueprints and then constructed of cardboard. The final plywood and balsa wood renditions are just about done.
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