Warren Elementary School fifth grader Graham Schaefer won a student T-shirt design contest and will have his winning design for sale on T-shirts at Splinters Board Shop in Warren. Proceeds from the T-shirt sales will go to the Warren Skatepark. Harwood Union Middle School (HUMS) Extended Learning-Work Based Learning coordinator Katie Kenney worked with Travis Kerr, owner of Splinters, to conduct the contest. Graphic designer Ryan Dreimiller came to talk to HUMS students about what makes a good T-shirt design as well as what led him on his path to be a graphic designer. Students then made a slideshow about graphic design that they presented to all HUMS students. A group of students visited the Generator maker space in Burlington, where they learned about Adobe software and how to actually make T-shirts.
Then, students got to work designing their own T-shirts. One student…
