For fifty-two years, there has been an architectural design competition for Bay Area high school students. This annual event challenges students to create a design for a major new building, and requires students to submit presentation boards with drawings of their solution, a physical scale model and a written description of their approach to the design.

 

Every year hundreds of students from various high schools participate. Many of San Francisco’s leading architects participated in the competition when they were in high school, and credit it with helping them decide on their career.