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Wentworth’s SummerFab High School Architecture Program

Wentworth’s SummerFab High School Architecture Program

SummerFAB, a six-week, nonresidential (commuter day) summer program, in its fifth year, exposes high school youth to the built environment through interdisciplinary, project-based learning practices, a cornerstone to a Wentworth education.

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The virtual SummerLAB program at the Wentworth Institute of Technology introduces architecture, construction, planning, design, and implementation to high school students, giving them exposure to all phases of a complete architectural project–from initial design concepts through development and refinement and including realization as a full-scale construction on a site.

SummerFAB structure:

6-week, nonresidential summer program
Exposes high school youth to the built environment through interdisciplinary, project-based learning practices, a cornerstone to a Wentworth education
Participants collaborate with Wentworth faculty and current architecture students to research, design, fabricate, and construct a full-scale, community-driven solution to local neighborhood challenges
Participants are provided the opportunity to develop a holistic network of youth interested in design, faculty who teach design, academic and social emotional support staff, and architects, contractors, engineers, and developers across the Boston area

Instructors are immersing designers who received their educations through the WIT Architecture graduate degree program and are proven throughout their years at WIT to be talented high energy designers committed to design excellence and the role of making in architecture.

Program attendees will also receive full time support from specialists trained in all modes of fabrication offered here at Wentworth.

Students will design and build a project in collaboration with the Charlestown Resident Alliance for the Bunker Hill Apartments, a Boston Housing Authority development in Charlestown. The program aims to install the project on-site at the housing development by the end of the program.