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AUGUST 29, 2024 • Vol. 4, No. 18
Catholic Central opens $61 million STEM center BY CHARITY MEIER cmeier@candgnews.com
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Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
A retired U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet hangs from the ceiling above the new robotics competition field.
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Detroit Catholic Central High School, in Novi, which is marketed as the largest private school in the state, just got a bit larger with the opening of a new stateof-the-art science, technology, engineering and math center Aug. 11. Known as the George and Mary Turek Hall of Science, the $61 million expansion has 57,000 square feet of learning space and is designed to last 100 years. “Sometimes schools are struggling to make the building, the facilities, the equipment work for what they want to do. We’ve been put in more of a unique situation where the donors wanted the building, and the resources going into the building, to challenge us to fill it with curriculum,” said Jake Marmul, Catholic Central director of admissions and public relations. The building features an aviation suite; a fabrication and machinery shop; a sustainably focused greenhouse; a FIRST Robotics competition field, along with robotics programming and building spaces; a 4-meter Observa-Dome with a GPS computerized Celestron telescope; an innovation space; an Engineering/CAD Lab; eight dedicated science laboratories, which are 2.5 times larger than a normal classroom; 4 lab prep rooms; and upon completion of construction, an immersion theater where students can feel like they are part of the film they are viewing.