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Contributed by: Karen Groves/YourHub.com on 10/3/2008

Along with a school dedication ceremony held Sept. 30 Arvada West High School had a busy week that included homecoming activities.

According to Melissa Reeves with the communications department at Jefferson County School District, the $24million constructionproject includes a 162,000 square foot building replaced the original1963 school. The new north classroom wing was designed to match the existing two-story west wing. The addition features large exterior windows and a two-story atrium.

Contiguous to the atrium space are two levels of classrooms, which have light windows that capture the light of the atrium.

The new building has an auxiliary and main gymnasium with locker rooms, auditorium, music rooms, administration, cafeteria/commons, kitchen and core classrooms for math, English, special education, business, arts and wood technology. The baseball, softball, soccer and band practice fields and tennis courts were relocated.

The Galleria Building will remain and become the Warren Tech - Galleria at Arvada West. Students will be able to choose from a variety of up and coming curriculums to include health sciences, digital music, pharmacy tech and sports medicine, which will be the first class of its kind in Jeffco.

The school will also work towards providing curriculums in nanotechnology, the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale, and bioinformatics, which is a mix of biotechnology and computer science, in 2010.

Assistant principal Robert Lopez said that Congressman Ed Perlmutter attended the ceremony.

A jungle theme was the theme for the parade floats that rolled out of the parking lot Oct. 2 at Arvada West High School.

The marching band float had a big drum and palm trees, and the railing decorated with little stuffed jungle animals, like monkeys, giraffes.

Another float titled Walk on the Wild Side, used the creative efforts of student Basia Kajdanska with a miniature giraffe on board.

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