Field Trip at UW Basketball Training Facility (Seattle – Middle School)

Educators, be sure to take our short 2024-2025 educator training before signing up for this event.

Only teachers, counselors, or adult staff members at a school can sign up for IGNITE events. If you are a student, please let the IGNITE Educator at your school know that you are interested in this event. If you don’t have IGNITE at your school, please email contactus@ignite-worldwide.org to get started!

Site Visit to the UW ICA Basketball training facility as a follow up to our first outreach event (in person lego construction building exercise). Students will be able to see how General Contractors work with Architects, Designers, Structural Engineers and other trade partners to bring the owners vision to life. This project team is a predominantly female team, and the project focuses on equity in design to offer equal access to both the mens and women’s sports teams through identical high performance training spaces for the University of Washingtons Bball, VBall, and Gymnastics programs.

Behind the greatest moments of sports, iconic plays, and championships are countless hours of training to optimize athlete performance and overall team health. Athletes train and perform in spaces that are made possible by the work of architects, engineers, contractors, and building operators. Teamwork is essential to success in sports and Design-Build construction teams alike. Bring your curiosity and explore the various aspects of design and construction needed to make facilities like the University of Washington’s new basketball training facility possible.
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• Students that attend this Field Trip must participate in the How Sports and STEM Intersect Workshop at their school prior to this Field Trip. More details and sign up here.
• This Field Trip is open to feeder schools to Garfield High School (Washington, Meany, Tops K8)