Architects to be?
High schoolers tackle parking at Raiders stadium
It’s a puzzle that government officials and professionals in the architecture and engineering fields are trying to solve: gameday parking at the future site of the Las Vegas Raiders stadium.
Local high-schoolers may have the solution.
Almost three dozen Las Vegas Valley high school juniors and seniors — tasked with designing a parking facility at the stadium site — were honored earlier this month at UNLV’S School of Architecture for the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects’ High School Design Awards. The 45th-annual event included more than $2,000 in prize money distributed among five award winners.
“We try to make this as relevant and interesting as possible,” said Ryan Sisti, the awards show’s chairman, who came up with the task this year. “Complicated or not, we want the students to be passionate about the project they’re working on.”
Students in the competition had about two months to craft a full proposal project, including a name, description and graphic rendering of the structuresnear the future football stadium. Entrants could be from architecture or specialized art classes at any high school in Southern Nevada, not just public schools in the Clark County School District. Prizes were given in both team and individual categories.
Smiling with a certificate in hand and $500 promised in prize money, Southwest Career and Technical Academy seniors Renae Sebastian, 18, Deangelo Mortel, 17, and Spencer Ossa, 17, posed for pictures with teacher Rosemary Czar. The trio of students represented a team of 10 Southwest Tech students that worked each day for almost two months to design Radiant, a project that included a parking garage and retail space across Las