Winning design by college students chosen for Ashcroft Design Challenge
WINNING DUO OFFERED PAID INTERNSHIP
The inaugural Ashcroft Master Builder Design Challenge at Lethbridge College is being deemed a massive success.
The winners, Lina Wiebe and Jada Kot, were announced at the college’s annual surRENDER showcase Wednesday evening. Wiebe and Kot designed a model home called “The Emberly,” a sleek, modern woodand-stone concept featuring lots of windows and natural light.
However, LC Interior Design Technology (IDT) program instructor Cherie Reitzel said regardless of who won in the end, all her students learned a lot throughout the competition.
“We are buzzing with excitement right now in this institution,” she said. “And even for people not in the top three, they have all been competing all along and pitching their ideas and learning so much. Ashcroft actually came on site halfway through and looked at all of their drawings, and gave them feedback. This for our students is real-life experience.”
The two winning students will coshare top prize for the Design Challenge.
“The first-year students did the floor plans and gave those plans to our second-year students who were doing our animation course,” said Reitzel. “Those students pulled it up in 3D, did an animation and had a virtual-reality walkthrough. The winning first year-student gets their second year of college paid for. The winning second-year student gets a $1,500 cheque. And then the two together have been offered a paid internship where they will be able to watch the home they designed being constructed. They will actually work with Ashcroft to oversee the project.”