For schools, the challenge of delivering quality learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous approaches to creating safe environments. Transformit Inc. was asked by the Portland, Maine, school district to provide quotes for dozens of outdoor classrooms. “The CARES Act had provided the township with a budget to work with, and they needed to research the best places to invest their resources,” says Cindy Thompson, founder of Transformit, Gorham, Maine. More than a dozen great ideas for getting the students out of the buildings were discussed. Some included bringing cafeterias outside with large shade structures to cover the dining tables, large shade structures over the entire elementary playground, little “camp-like” structures suspended between trees in the woods and a covered roof garden area on the second story of the middle school.
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