Spring Break Operations Manual
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Design of a spring break program for 24 participants. \
Staff
- 4 hour staff training required beforehand for site staff.
- Admin - admissions and questions, coordination. Handles registration process and onboarding emails.
- Hospitality and Logistics - admissions admin, cooking and living space, signage, waste, garden, store runs. Prepares site for arrival.
- Co-teachers - 2 assistants required for teaching build process.
- Logistics - materials moving and handling with skid steer.
24 Unit Program
- Prototypes
Program
- Prep webinar - watch at your leisure. 1 hour describing the week.
- Day 1 - Welcome presentation, half hour, and half hour intros. 2 Hour Construction Boot Camp + practice wall module build - total 4 hours morning.
- Afternoon: 2 hour production - Cabin 1. Then a 2 hour AI Assisted FreeCAD design intro: how to design just about anything. Part Library work - process overview, sample part generation.
- Day 2 - 2 Hour House Design Boot Camp. Starting Cabin 1 interior.
- Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing plumbing.
- Day 3 - 2 Hour PV System + Roofless Roof Design Bootcamp and Design Session. Finishing Cabin 1.
- Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design -Part library work - designing electrical.
- Day 4 - 2 Hour Heat Pump and Thermal Battery Design Boot Campand Design Session. Starting Cabin 2.
- Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing power center.
- Day 5 - House Design Finalization Session Starting interior of Cabin 2.
- Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing heat pump module.
- Day 6 - Village Design Boot camp and Design Session. Building Cabin 5.
- Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing PV system in detail.
- Day 7 - project day: we build a new cabin model that we designed collaboratively in the last 5 days. Depending on the number and ambition of team - we will buils something from 120 to 240 square feet in size - either 1 or 2 modules.
Future Infrastructure Upgrades
- Production aquaponic greenhouse
- Pervious paver driveways, with 3D printed block