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Camp Cooper completes renovated sustainable sleeping cabins for student field trips
Summary
Colin Weight, director of the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, said six renovated, bond-funded sleeping cabins that can house up to 72 students are complete after about eight months of work, using sustainable building techniques to support overnight environmental education.
Colin Weight, director of the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, said the Cooper Center’s Camp Cooper has finished renovations on six sustainable sleeping cabins that will support overnight student field trips.
"We've used some incredible sustainable building techniques and materials as part of this project," Weight said, describing roughly eight months of renovation work designed to model sustainable practices in energy use and construction materials for visiting students and adults.
Weight said the sixth cabin upgrades can house up to 72 students in total and will allow groups to "spend the night in the Sonoran Desert" as part of their programs, framing the work as a hands-on opportunity to connect students with the natural environment.
He also said the project was supported by the bond office, calling it "bond dollars at work building spaces that inspire the next generation." The speaker did not specify which bond measure or issuing office provided the funds.
Organizers emphasized the educational purpose of the renovations, saying the cabins are intended both as functional overnight facilities and as demonstrations of sustainable construction that can be used in program curriculum. No formal votes or board actions were recorded in the remarks.
Weight concluded by reiterating the center’s commitment to students, the environment and the community, noting the renovations are meant to support long-term experiential learning opportunities at Camp Cooper.
