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Engineering Activities

Mike Williams' Free State Engineering students designed the outdoor classroom for the prairie.  These students worked closely with engineers and project managers from Westar's Green Team to develop working plans for the shelter which was constructed with repurposed lumber from transmission line poles in 2015.  

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Engineering students also created plans for picnic tables that the woodshop students would later build for the outdoor classroom.

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The shelter is invaluable; it gets a LOT of use!

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Free State Prairie is open to the public every day between dawn and dusk. The prairie is located on the NW corner of the property behind the football stadium.  Enter through the main athletics entrance and follow the wide sidewalk around behind the stadium.  At the end of the sidewalk, head across the lawn to the northwest toward the shelter and shed.

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Free State Prairie

Lawrence Free State High School

4700 Overland Dr.

Lawrence,  KS  66049

freestateprairie@gmail.com 

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