{"id":965,"date":"2018-09-20T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=965"},"modified":"2018-09-21T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:09:55","slug":"acu-students-volunteer-to-design-tables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2018\/09\/20\/acu-students-volunteer-to-design-tables\/","title":{"rendered":"ACU students volunteer to design tables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-966 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-768x735.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-490x469.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/09\/20180920_111907-1080x1034.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an effort to newly furnish the Library Union and promote individual and small-group study, the library sought the help of ACU interior design students to volunteer their time in designing a table that would support both comfortable collaboration and focused productivity. Sophomores <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrea Stone, Arleth Alvarez, Liz Wong, Madison Meenan, Marilyn Salazar, Myra Castillo, Sydney Dawson, and Taihja Tribble accepted the challenge, split up into two teams, and now call ACU Library their first client. \u00a0Madison Meenan explains, \u201cThe table project was an eye opening experience of working with a client for the first time, sharing ideas and collaborating to develop a meaningful product.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designs were developed through the use of drafting and design applications called SketchUp and AutoCAD. \u00a0The CNC router in the ACU Maker Lab was also used to make furniture by hand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sled Table, seen in the picture below, was the design selected by the library for construction of five large work surfaces in the Library Union. \u00a0Andrea Shone shares, \u201cIt is rewarding to see tables situated on the 3rd floor of the library that our team designed, and students using them for study.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Left: Andrea Shone (team leader),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right: Madison Meenan (team leader)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to newly furnish the Library Union and promote individual and small-group study, the library sought the help of ACU interior design students to volunteer their time in designing a table that would support both comfortable collaboration and focused productivity. Sophomores Andrea Stone, Arleth Alvarez, Liz Wong, Madison Meenan, Marilyn Salazar, Myra Castillo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}