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PUT IN WORK LIKE THE RENAISSANCE: (Top) Junior Kyle Porter makes final adjustments to Techloft. The new space is meant to be more convenient. (Middle) Senior Sophie Dilman and junior Kyle Porter work to move a board. The Techloft is an area tech theater students use for extra space. (Bottom) Senior Jack McDougal hands a hammer to junior Kyle Porter. The move to the new Techloft has taken over three weeks.

Per auditorium director Christopher “Chris” Plunkett, the tech theater classes are reorganizing the techloft. From scraps of wood to all of “paint world,” the students are making everything more accessible and convenient to use.

“We’re building a loft within a loft,” Plunkett said. Over the course of three weeks, they have almost completed building this loft.

Alison “Ali” Moss, an advanced tech theater student and sophomore, works with her classmates almost every period to finish this project.

“We’ve been tearing things down and building new things for this project, but overall I think it will make the loft easier to use in class,” Moss said. Part of the techloft is being repurposed for paint world, a space where all of the paint for sets is stored, and the other part is being built to hold the wood.

The Techloft is a storage space that the tech theater students started using for extra storage in the class. It was built into the auditorium when the school was constructed. Although the floor is cinder block, the rest of the loft has changed, moved and been rebuilt over the years.

With this school year only being Plunkett’s second year, he said he feels as though the loft needed to be redone because it was not as efficient as he said he believed it could be.

Moss said she agreed with this statement as last year was also her first year as a tech theater student.

Plunkett said last year was all about finding out how things were done at this school. While finding out the way things have been done in the past, including the routine and placements of items, Plunkett said he decided to make some changes based on students’ opinions.