Health and Science Education Center
This is The Overall Vision For The Health and Science Education Center.
A Community Owned Multi-Use Health and Science Educational & Service Facility for Students, Staff and the Parish Community.
This Facility Provides Opportunity to Spread God’s Peace by Offering a Multi-Use Health and Science Education Center that Teaches Our Youth and Their Families the Physical, Scientific and Economic Processes of Living a Healthy Lifestyle.
A lifestyle that emulates Jesus’ example and allows Jesus to be a part of all aspects in life, while focusing on His greatest gift, the Physical and Mental Health of our Youths Mind, Body and Soul.
The MCA Campus Vision Design
The Health and Science Center Design
Multiple Uses
Applications for The Cafe
School Cafeteria and Commercial Kitchen. After School Cafe & Lounge. Home and Farm Education Use. Economic and Finance Education for Operation of the Cafeteria and Cafe. On-site, and Co-op with Maplewood for Farm to Table Education Program. Community Use and Rental.
Event Center and Fitness Facility
School Gymnastics Team, Tumbling and Gymnastics Education Program for existing and potential students. School Basketball Stadium. Tonka Club Gymnastic Girls Team Home Gym, with a Boys Gymnastics and Tumbling Program. Community Recreation Gymnastics Programs. Event Hosting, Camps and Training Facility for School, Church and Community Use. Baseball Club Team Indoor Facilities with an MCA Education Program. School, Church and Community Use for Health and Physical Education Programs. Strength & Fitness Clubs. Professional Gymnastics Equipment Rental Use. Indoor and Outdoor Batting Cages. Outdoor Turfed area around the north and west perimeter.
A Physical Health Care Service that Supports On-Site Medical and Science Education, with Real Life Applications:
A Physical and Health Care Practice. Medical Training, Athletic Training, Science Programs & Laboratory Classroom Use for MCA Students, Staff and Community. A licensed Doctor, Nurse, Lab Technician and other Professionals will be on-site, on a daily basis, teaching the Students and assisting the Staff. Physical and Mental Rehabilitation for Students, Staff & the Community. Medical Residency Program and Medical Education Programs for Students. Student Exchange Program with Adventist Health & Physical Care Universities and Schools around the Globe. A Remote Location in Hutchinson for Educational and Training Will Be Introduced.
Additional MCA Building and Education Uses
Post 8 Pre-Secondary Independent Global Study Program central location. Science Library and Lab Classrooms. Exchange Programs with other Global Adventist Schools, Including Maplewood Campus and Housing.
The Multiple Programs and Rooms Within the Structure, As Currently Designed, Defined:
The Field House is the general term for the entire building. It will serve indoor and outdoor events, cafeteria, Health and science education programs, after school lounge, athletic clubs, farming and outdoor nurturing programs, grounds maintenance and care, exchange programs and more… A few of the smaller details include: Two locker rooms, with a dedicated outdoor entrance, can each house up to 25 athletes, with 2 showers and a “mud” area for the farm. Public restroom, basement classrooms, weight room, and commercial kitchen access is also nearby. Outdoor viewing to the Minnehaha marsh, beyond the baseball and football / soccer fields, are prevalent with the elevated coaching and spectating decks. This building will be the central use for all current and future indoor and outdoor school buildings and grounds activities.
The Welcome Center features a 20’ x 20’ lobby, large enough to transition students and staff to and from existing school buildings. The Welcome Center administration area is inside the main building and encompasses the overall outdoor campus and classroom concept. Student art display area, community pop-ups, are all possible within this large space.
The Garage, at 42’ x 20’, will be the home for the Shop and Farming Home Ec classroom. It will store outdoor and indoor property care equipment. There is direct access to the Laboratory classroom and easy access to the science library and farming mud room. An additional rear vestibule garage, at 20′ x 30′, will support additional grounds equipment. It can be used for the Event Center equipment additions and removal, and future outdoor dome and field expansions.
The Cafe supports the mental and physical health of the students, staff, and community. The primary function of this space will be the schools cafeteria and Home and Farm education use during school hours. After school hours, the community cafe will provide students and club participants healthy food options, and can also be used as a lounge area for all.
As a School cafeteria it provides education to the students, staff and community through sourcing, growing, harvesting, preparing, serving and consuming healthy meals, snacks and filtered water. A Mediterranean style theme will provide students, staff and the community healthy eating and hydration education for their current and future physical and mental lifestyle.
The cafe area is 55’ x 30’, with overflow of over 2,200 square feet in the Welcome Center and the Event Center spectator area. It has an open view towards the event facility for expanded events, education, spectating and coaching, and an additional serving and education area, 15’ x 20’, near the commercial kitchen. The commercial kitchen is 25’ x 20’ with a cafeteria style serving area, and multiple entries for basement, garage and outdoor serving opportunities.
The Cafe can present business opportunities to students, staff and the community:
– Running the school cafeteria is a great opportunity to teach, learn, and apply basic economics, math, statistics, farming, food sourcing, preparing, and sanitation, that is required in the real world.
– After school hours the school, or students, or community members, can house their own cafe and use the facilities as an education and profit making opportunity, while farming, sourcing, buying, preparing, serving, and operating a cafe with healthy local foods, on-site garden, and filtered water.
The Farm ??
The Event Center is a state of the art Gymnastics event center and practice facility for students, teams, staff, the local Tonka Club Team, and community recreation programs for the youth. It will also be used for other activities and events for students, staff, the community, and building occupants. Some of the other uses include a rehabilitation area, strength and fitness training, indoor batting cages, events, basketball games, programs and community rental use.
The center is over 18,000 square feet with a seating capacity of over 600 people.
This will be the best private, club level, gymnastics event center in the area, and will attract thousands of families each year.
The Health Care & Science Building is nearest to Williston Rd and the proposed parking lot. It has multiple uses within the Family Medical Practice Education and Service Fields. It is a fully secured from the rest of the building.
– For education and patient applications, their is a secured 20’ x 25’ Laboratory classroom for Medical and Science training, with access to The Garage.
– A Licensed Doctor, Nurse and other professionals will assist in teaching the Students and helping the Staff.
– An adjoining, secured, Athletic Training Room for education and Physical Care.
– A Medical Clinic Lab Station that can be securely accessed from the Laboratory and Training Rooms.
– Four (4) Exam rooms for mental, physical and rehabilitation health care.
– Two (2) work offices.
– Reception area office for The Health Center and additional administration.
– A large secured lobby with separate, secured bathrooms.
– A basement Medical and Science Library.
The Cafe Design Details
The Health & Science Center Design Details
So, how do we get there? How can we actually break ground on this building in March of 2024?
From Vision To Reality
Below are current examples and a presentation of on-site applications that will demonstrate how we will implement this vision over the next 24 months.
2022-2023 Accomplishments and Failures
We will begin with what we have done this school year. We have implemented, or attempted to implement, numerous programs for MCA this school year, 2022-2023.
We began by starting a basketball team for MCA – the first athletic team in 11 years.
We started a tumbling club for Pre-K to 2nd grade during the 3rd quarter. Then offered to continue a safer opportunity for the 4th quarter, forming sort of a tumbling club team and using the Minnetonka High School gymnastics gym, and a coach of theirs, to increase the safety and skills taught. Within this club, Chrissy volunteered to help coach, Rob set up and took down the equipment each time, and we paid a gymnastics coach to help with spotting and safety.
Beginning of the 2nd semester, Rob started volunteering as a Phy-ed teacher and Chrissy volunteered as the medical doctor resource for Health Lessons that coordinated with each weeks physical education lesson. Our virtual classroom can be found here: https://mcagym.org/classroom/
Rob attempted to start a baseball club for the spring, however the facilities I was hoping to rent at Williston Fitness Center just wouldn’t be adequate. We hope to host a couple pop-up baseball camps this spring, if the weather cooperates. And, we hope to start a morning walk / run club for students, staff and parents, once the snow melts.
Please accept that the above, and the following, is only intended to relay our commitment to the school.
This school year, since the start of the basketball season beginning of November, Chrissy and I will have dedicated over 150 hours of in-person volunteer time and at least an additional 25 hours of prep time for Phy-ed and Health lessons. Next school year, God willing, we will more than double this effort.
2023-2024 School Year Proposal
For the upcoming school year, we would like to increase our presence on-campus by continuing the Health and Phy-ed curriculum (still in proposal status). While we plan on continuing to create and host after school clubs, the majority of our time will be spent in establishing real athletic programs as well as creating the template for the Health and Science Education Center, assuming MCA is a willing partner. We will do this by introducing the following opportunities for the Students, Staff and Community on MCA’s Campus this coming school year and the following school year:
Health Science & Physical Education
Athletic Director Duties
Real Estate Foreclosure Outreach for Minnetonka SDA
School Doctor Hours
Fundraising for Current Athletic Programs
Fundraising for the Health and Science Education Center
Further details on these immediate proposals will be given to the responsible parties within the school and church. If accepted, we will dedicate our time this coming school year on developing the necessary education and athletic programs with the hope to hand off the Health & Phy-ed and Athletic Director duties to an on-staff instructor beginning 2024-2025 school year. Then, we will focus on implementing our Health and Science Education and Facility uses, while the new structure is being built. Our goal is to have the facility completed by November 1st of 2024.
Specific Details for Each Use
Detailed information for each use can be found on each page listed in the top menu, or directly below. Reviewing each use, you will see how we plan to reach our goals, making each vision, become a reality.
Science & Health Education Details
MCA Outreach
Funding and Building Shares
Our fundraising concept was briefly mentioned; selling shares that would give community members 10% ownership of the building, with a value of $450,000 for each share. Breaking up the entire structure into two different “buildings” is visibly easy: Event Center and Cafeteria is the Community owned portion of the building. And the Health Care business will be in a privately funded portion of the building, yet it can still help service the Event Center and Cafeteria and vice versa.
Our bank will lend to us the necessary funds needed to construct the entire building, once we sell a minimum of 4 shares, or a total of $1,800,000 in donations, sales and commitment. We estimate the Event Center & Cafeteria’s building value to be, at a minimum, $4,500,000, which allows the 10 shares to be sold at $450,000 per share. Chrissy and I will contribute in cash, and loans from our bank, the necessary amount to build the Health Care portion of the building, which will amount to 3 shares. In all, the entire building will be valued at $6,050,000, 13 shares at $450,000 each.
Chrissy and I will purchase and own the 3 shares needed for the Health Care building and we will also purchase and hold 4 shares of the Event & Cafe building, an additional $1,800,000 contribution. We can sell these shares to pay down, or pay off, the initial construction loans if or when necessary. With the remaining 6 shares, we foresee at least one share being sold to community members that we know (and family). We assume the school and the church would each purchase their own share so they can hold positions on the association board – more on the association below and at the MCA Cafe page. We will sell one to the Gymnastics Club Program and the remaining two shares can be sold to various partners: staff, church members, parents, students, club parents and local investors. Another option we have, is to borrow from private investors, which we already have full commitments from, however their return rate is pretty high. Our preferred option is to raise the entire amount in donations or shares, and not have a mortgage at all.
The Health & Science building, with an estimated building cost of $1,500,000 for the 5,500 square feet building (of that 840 sf is the garage), a $270 per sf estimate, will be funded through the 3 private shares Chrissy and I will own. An estimated lien amount of around $1,200,000 will be placed as a mortgage on the building. This will be paid for through the Health Care services we will provide, and income generated by our established Real Estate businesses. See more details at the “Health Care” page.
The Event Center at 18,200 sf (plus additional catwalk viewing area of 3,600 sf) and the Cafeteria at 5,600 sf (plus the basement of 3,000 sf) will use the cash from 4 sold shares ($1,800,000) as a downpayment towards the estimated $3,100,000 building cost, or $130 per sf estimate. One of our shares will be a contribution in cash towards the building costs, which leaves a remaining mortgage amount of $850,000. This will initially be covered by us – Chrissy and Rob, our income, and from the leasing and events income, which will fully support the mortgage costs by the end of year 2. Chrissy and I can also sell one of our Health & Science building shares, if needed, to pay down the mortgage amount. Detailed financial information can be found at the Event Center page.
The Event Center and Cafeteria portion on the building will be managed by the association board. The two income generating entities will be the Health & Science Care business plan and the Event center leasing, use and events. However, by year three, we estimate that the Cafeteria will gross enough income through school lunches, cafe use, event leasing, home ec. and farming education programs, and additional space lease use by the community, to generate additional income that will be used to pay down the mortgage. Detailed financial information can be found at the Cafe page.
Conclusion
As mentioned in the introduction, there is no way we could have come up with this vision on our own. This is inspired by God, an answer to our prayers, as a way for us to dedicate our lives and livelihood towards spreading God’s peace through the youth in our Community.
The Health and Science Education Center Design
The MCA Cafe Design Details
The Event Center Design Details
The Health and Science Center Design Details