SAAS Rising: A Campaign for Campus Transformation
The SAAS Rising Campaign was a $35 million capital campaign to transform the Seattle Academy campus. The campaign vision: build a STREAM Building (Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, Math) featuring purpose-built science facilities and a community-strengthening Learning Commons for the Upper School, and build a dynamic new home for the Middle School program. The SAAS Rising Campaign’s $35 million fundraising effort was completed successfully in May 2018. This milestone was achieved thanks to over 900 donors.
The Seattle Academy STREAM Building opened for student use in fall 2015. STREAM is a sustainably designed building that features six purpose-built science labs and a Robotics and Innovation lab classroom. Flexible common areas and meeting spaces throughout the building create opportunities for formal and informal collaboration between both students and faculty. The two-story Learning Commons is the new cultural “hub” for the school’s upper school; this space serves as a classroom, meeting and study space, as well as a gathering location for students during free time and lunch.
The second new building began construction in March 2017 and was completed in the summer of 2018. The new building is the permanent home for our Middle School program; it includes a second gym, an outdoor playfield, a Middle School lunchroom, makerspace, and an instrumental music classroom. The new building also includes space for grade-level learning commons for 6th, 7th and 8th grade.