To drive home the point, the university and board have joined with the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to sponsor a Historic Preservation Workshop with a World's Fair theme for students grades 9 through 12 from the city's High School for Arts and Business in Corona. The event will take place at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, October 2. The museum is situated in the 1964 fair's New York City Building, the only major structure remaining from the two New York World's Fairs. The workshop is part of an ongoing pilot program, the High School for the Preservation Arts project, being developed by NJIT's Center for Architecture and Building Science Research and the NYC Board at the pilot high school located in the Corona section of the city.
All students participating are volunteers.
Once the program is fully developed in a NYC high school the objective is to meet New York State Board of Regents requirements. NJIT's Center and the NYC Board then hope to qualify students for admission to post secondary programs, and provide them with the equivalent of a year's preservation arts internship. So far, the pilot program at the High School for Arts and Business has included a Preservation Week event and three summer internship programs at restoration sites sponsored by host artisan, A. Ottavino Corporation. The sponsors hope the pilot program will serve as a model for other high schools to emulate in setting up their own preservation arts curriculum and vocational skills programs. Craft Training in the Service of Historic Preservation.