2020 EDUCATION MAGAZINE

Page 24 2020 Education Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS FEBRUARY 20, 2020 where people want to see something for the arts and other things. So when we created the room, it truly is not just going to be a gym for sports necessarily. It’s going to be a multi- purpose room that we are going to use for fine arts, for practices and for P.E. Lamkey explained, if you go in the main gym right now, it has the Topper colors, the banners and everything. The multi-purpose room is going to be a little more muted. The floor is just going to be a plain floor. The school colors, purple and gold, will be around the gym with “Toppers” across the back wall. “But it’s going to be set up more so to reflect performances, whether it be Christmas concerts or musicals or plays. It’s truly going to be a multi-use facility,” Lamkey said. There will just be seating on one side of the room, directly across from the stage. The basketball floor or volleyball court will be running north and south. Bleachers will come down and there will be plenty of space to set up seating across the floor. The new addition to the high school will also feature plenty of storage and new classrooms, and much needed new locker rooms. The old locker rooms (part of the 1963 addition) would be demolished in the Spring and moved up against that north wall of the gymnasium, said Lamkey. Students can also look forward to two new special education classrooms and faculty can eagerly anticipate new offices will be located along the Spring Street entrance. Continued p