As students at McKinley Elementary School start the school year next week, they may notice something different. The new-construction smell may hit them as they walk through the school’s doors, a cue that something exciting happened while they were gone.
Administrators, carpenters and designers renovated a previously unusable room into a multi-purpose maker space that Santa Barbara Unified School District staff unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.
“We’re really looking forward to maximizing the result of all this hard work,” McKinley’s principal Dr. Elena Garcia-Yoshitomi said. “This will give us space for all of our students to become creative —…