Students treat coaches to new lockers

The boys coaches at Sisters High School now have a place to store their gear thanks to teacher Tony Cosby and his Woods 2 class.

This past summer the 14 students in Cosby’s Woods 2 class completed three walls of lockers in the coaches locker room at Sisters High School. The lockers are made of birch plywood and the tops and doors of solid maple. The finished product is truly a work of art and craftsmanship.

The lower set of lockers serves a dual purpose of both storage and seating. The doors of the lower cabinets were designed by Cosby’s Computer Aided Drafting and Design Class (CADD).

“My CADD students drew the Outlaw horse logo,” said Cosby, “and then we took it to John Small Welding of Bend who put it in his CNC machine which cut the emblem out of black metal. We had 11 made and then used them to ventilate the front of the lockers.”

The project took the entire spring semester of 2005 and came to completion this past summer. Students were in charge from the initial design to the finished product.

According to Cosby the lockers were built at a cost of $2,000, which was less than half what it would have cost the district if the project had gone to a licensed cabinet maker.

Cosby said, “The kids did such a great job! The finished product is beautiful and the kids learned a ton about cabinetry.”