The Overall Winners

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2020 Birmingham dreamARCHITECTURE Winners – Dream Statements

Kindergarden

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Kindergarten

1^st Place
Barrett Thrasher
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler

2^nd Place
Michael Moreno
Brighton Elementary
Paige Belgaonkar
“I made a pineapple library. It is delicious and smells good. You can read here and always feel happy.”

2^nd Place
Taron Johnson
Brighton Elementary
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream because it is floating in the sky. You can enjoy being up in the air while reading.”

3^rd Place
Emilyn Garcia
Brighton Elementary
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream. It’s a waterfall library. You can read by the water and relax.”

Honorable Mention
Margaret Fox
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler

Honorable Mention
Myiah Erby-Welch
Charles A. Brown Elementary
M. Milligan
“The libreey is at my howze. Blue is febric.”

Honorable Mention
Madeline White
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler
“This library is a flying robot with jet boosters and wings. The entrance is in the foot. It has a zipline. It has a book self checker outer so it doesn’t even need a human to check books out! It has an elevator to its arms and head.”

Honorable Mention
Brooklyn Foxhall
Brighton Elementary
Paige Belgaonkar
“My library is a bridge library. It is a nice design.”

1^st Grade

1^st Place
Anna Tullis
Saint Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“My design is a unicorn library. It will solve clean air with 100% unicorn hair. When air goes through it it gets clean.”

2^nd Place
Trévion Thompson
North Highland
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream. It is a playful library. Some of the buildings float in the sky.”

3^rd Place
Alaiah Burt
Cornerstone Schools of Alabama
Angelene Lowery
“My library is about frends and love. My library name is Frendship.”

Honorable Mention
A’Harmonee Walker
Charles A. Brown Elementary
M. Milligan
“Looking out the window you will see a lake to go swimming for my birthday. The lepard fabric is for a rug.”

Honorable Mention
Maria Lopez
Brighton Elementary School
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream. It is a garden library. There are so many flowers and it smells amazing.”

2^nd Grade

1^st Place
Kate Bright
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler
“My library is very colorful. The library is made for big and small book are up down and all around. There are a lot of places to sit and it’s got places were you can’t here anything and there is a slide.”

NO 2^nd GRADE 2^nd PLACE

3^rd Place
Jadea Smith
North Highland
Paige Belgaonkar
“My lobery have a swing and 10.000 books and feed the anamels and play with them and see them.”

Honorable Mention
Brent Washam, Jr.
Central Park Elementary School
Parent: Jerrine Ingram (Online Submission)
“My artwork is created in a space library. A rocketship, moon-chairs, and people are at the library floating. People are getting new books at the library and reading. People ride tiny carts to move around the space library. The gravity switch is off in the library, so people can float around the library.”

Honorable Mention
Oscar Martinez
North Highland
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream library because it is under water and you can swim.”

3^rd Grade

1^st Place
Cecilia Wienert
St. Rose Academy
Deby Alfao
“My dream library is all about nature. This library brings the outside inside. You can learn about nature and observe it. There is a glass-covered aquarium with bean bag chairs on top. You can climb up a tree to a balcony and slide back down. The ceiling has a stained glass window made out of recycled bottles. If you like nature this is the library for you!”

2^nd Place

Jordyn Belton
Brighton Elementary
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is dream library ice cream castle. I like it because it is colorful.”

3^rd Place
James Oliver Wood
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler
“The P.L.O.C. – public library of creativity is totaly made from scratch  one of my favorite part is the room of flying books that you can ride on  I also like the reading nooks. I made it from creativity”

Honorable Mention

Claudia Miller
North Highland
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is my dream library because you can read with pigs and sloths. And because you can set in a tent and in a floating apple chair. And thers a cofey shop near by. The best part is thers a slid to get down the seced flor. And a ball pit in the end. And a later that looks like a books. And a cool bleu and pink colerd rug. And it is cool.”

Honorable Mention
Elinor Chan
St. Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“My dream library is a treehouse library. The house is made of wood. There is a bridge from the books to the bathroom. It also has a ladder and a view porch. It would be located in a forest. I thought it would be cool to be able to enjoy nature and knowledge at the same time. And you would have a beautiful view of nature.”

4^th Grade
1^st Place
Julien Plaisance
Saint Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“My dream library is underwater.  It is made out of recycled glass, plastic and metal.  It helps protect coral reefs and marine life.  It is for people to interact with marine life and food will be grown in bubbles.”

2^nd Place
Harper Beason
Saint Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“My dream library is like a crystal, but it’s two times the size of your normal library.  There is even a water fall.  You might be thinking, ‘but libraries are quiet,’ and you’re right!  There are tiny pods, (as seen below) in which not only make sound disappear, but make natural light too.  Thanks for reading this note.  Harper”

3^rd Place
Raniyah McGee
North Highlands
Paige Belgaonkar
“This is the Sweet Tooth library and it’s filled with candy seats, watermelon, starburst, and gumdrops, and the roof is melted skittles.  I think people will come because everybody loves sweets and every time you read a book it comes to my computer and they gets some treats.”

Honorable Mention
Caroline Dennis
Crestline Elementary School
Kathryn Hill
“I thought I needed to do my penguin library because I love penguins.  They are so cute, (and) something awesome is it even has a(n) ice slide.”

Honorable Mention

Alice Nelson
Crestline Elementary
Lauren Fowler
“This library is modern. It is for modern people.”

5^th Grade

1^st Place
Sophia Petras
Advent Episcopal School
Mollie Everitt
“This library has animals in it and lots of old and new books. It’s a person’s perspective looking up from her book. On the second floor it real grass on the floor.”

2^nd Place
Bradley Bales
Crestline Elementary School
Kathryn Hill
“My library is very colorful and is for adults and kids. It can be accessed by wheelchair. It also has a pool and a playground.”

3^rd Place
Brooke Johnston
Crestline Elementary
Kathryn Hill
“I desided to make this less stressful because when you think of school>homework>work>stress. So this library is anti-stress. It’s a place where you can just relax and chill. 😊 Its very earthy + peaceful.”

Honorable Mention
Nancy Ryals Little
Crestline Elementary School
Kathryn Hill
“My library is rainbow themed. It is in the middle of nowhere, so you can see all of the sights and animals. At the top level you sit in a bean bag and press a button which makes you slide outside, so you can see nature.”

Honorable Mention
Tah’Nyjah
Cornerstone Elementary
Angelene Lowery
“My libray is for people who like to imagenate a lot about the book they read. When they read their books they can go on a real adventrure through the books they read and they learn alot while having fun. 😊

OVERALL WINNERS

1^st Place
Lilly Gwaltney, 1^st Grade
Edgewood Elementary School
Lauren Gwaltney – Parent
“My Dream Library is tropical themed. It has a book waterfall that you pick books out of and egg swings hanging from trees. I did a tropical theme because I love reading outside and I love tropical birds. That’s why… bye.”

2^nd Place

Joshua Sampayo, 1^st Grade
Saint Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“My library is a dinosaur library. The dinosaur helps people be safe and drops fire balls on bad guys.”

3^rd Place
Pierce Plaisance, 3^rd Grade
St. Rose Academy
Deby Alfano
“I made a dream dog library. It is full of happy pups that love to read. On the left there is the movies. And on the right there is the pup cannon and the lava boat. There are lots of fans to keep people cool. It is in a volcano.”