Students in Professor Clements’ HON 400 – Honors Capstone Seminar completed projects for 120 Hours, an international student architectural design competition based in Norway. The competition is centered around a sustainability issue. This year, the focus was on an Arctic area in Norway where tourism is invading the territory of a native bird called the Kittiwake. The winning team will receive 30,000 Norwegian Krone, or about $3,000.

All students in the two sections of this semester’s HON 400 Honors Capstone Seminar created projects in teams of three, working alongside team members from different majors. As the title of the competition suggests, students have 120 Hours to respond to a prompt. Honors students only had 96 hours so that the projects could be reviewed, with a WCSU winner selected to go on to the international competition.

Students produced quality work across the board, leading Professor Clements to select two winning teams to submit their projects to 120 Hours. These teams’ designs are displayed below. 

Team 0931: Pineapple Towers—Kittiwake Hotel

Matthew Moody (Media Arts), Benjamin McKiernan (Secondary Ed), Alyssa Motalvo (Criminal Justice)

Team 0932: The Harbor Bloom

Gabe Martin (Nursing), Thelma Owoicho (Creative & Prof. Writing), Sandra Mood (Theatre Arts)