STARKVILLE, Miss. – Implementation has begun on the initial phase of the 2015-16 Come Alive Outside Design Challenge winning design created by Mississippi State undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture students.
Now in its third year, the competition challenged MSU students, along with teams from Auburn University, Hinds Community College and Louisiana State University, to design an outdoor spot that would help the Memphis Catholic Middle School and High School better utilize existing greenspace.
The competition was organized and executed in partnership with nonprofits Come Alive Outside of Asheville, North Carolina, and The Kitchen Community of Boulder, Colorado, along with Memphis-based landscape design/build firm Michael Hatcher and Associates.
Hatcher, a 2008 MSU banking and finance graduate, already had been working with The Kitchen Community to design and build school and community gardens throughout the Memphis area.
His firm, which began implementing the first phase of the winning design last December, funded the MSU and other design challenge teams’ trips to Memphis last October. There, they had the opportunity to meet with and seek inspiration from landscape professionals and Memphis Catholic Middle School and High School students and teachers.
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