Spring Break Operations Manual

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About

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. Building Cabin 2.
    • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing plumbing.
  • Day 5 - [[House Design Finalization session. Building Cabin 4.
    • Afternoon - PV installation - Hangar. 2 hr CAD design - Part library work - designing heat pump module.
  • 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