Canstruction, a charity program based on collecting donated food cans to build an sculpture, displaying it at Campus, and making a social act with the Foundation.

Upper Elementary Art Teacher Soren Sturlaugson implemented Canstruction for students to combine an art project and help the community at the same time. He discovered this project while traveling last summer in the U.S. Candle Night will be the final presentation of the sculpture.

“On Wednesdays, I started a club called Canstruction. It’s a university sponsored sport in the United States, we are actually the first group in all of Colombia to do this,”  Sturlaugson said.

This Canstruction will not only be making the students bring cans to school and making a shape with them to expose it in candle night. This project will encourage students to challenge themselves in academic school aspects. Sturlaugson is not only including art techniques into this, he wants to include a little bit of every class, so it is a fun, interesting, and challenging project for the Elementary School students.

“We are doing a Canpaign, we are collecting cans of food and the kids will be studying architecture, engineering, learning the different concepts of basic physics, science, math, as well as Art,”  Sturlaugson said.

After the Canpaign is done, all the collected cans will be organised to do a sculpture made by the students. On December 6th, the sculpture made in Art class will be displayed to the people that come that night. 

”During noche de velitas, they will have a showcase, we are hoping to collect around three to five thousand cans, and then see what is the best choice we can make to build a good sculpture,” Sturlaugson said.

The Canpaign starting October, that will be posted all around the school, will be open for everyone who wants to donate any type and size of food can. Sturlaugson is encouraging everyone to help for this project because the real goal of this is to make a social act through art. As he says, around three to five thousand cans will be needed to develop this project so a lot of help from us and everyone in the school is need it so the program and the charity act can be done well.

“In October we are going to have a one week campaign, we are going to roll that out on the last week of October letting all the school know we need to collect three to five thousand cans to build the sculpture,” Sturlaugson said.

Elementary students are as well encouraged by the project, they are all making posters to let people know about the Campaign. 

“I like the project and I like how we help the school foundation, I brought most of the cans because I am really interested on the project and I want it to do well.” Juanita Arango, 5D student, said.

Finally, after Noche de las Velitas in December, all the cans used will be donated to the foundation, but in order for  this to run well, they need the help of all the school and anyone that is interested on doing a good thing for the school and the people in need.

“After Noche de Velitas we will donate the cans of food to the Columbus School Foundation which is the main goal of the whole program, to help,” Sturlaugson said.