John Marshall High CTE Students Build Sculpture For New WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Outpatient Clinic

In constructing the new WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Robert Sonneborn Family Pediatric Outpatient Center, WVU Medicine as sought as many contributions from the Ohio Valley community as it can. What John Marshall High School’s career technical education students are offering will be one of the most visible on the outpatient center’s campus.

The CTE students have been building a metal sculpture that will stand at the center’s entrance plaza, greeting everyone who visits. JMHS CTE teacher Jayson Summers said the piece will be 14 feet tall and is made 100% out of aluminum. It will feature the WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s multicolored paper doll logo, the figures stacked on top of each other flying a kite.

Summers said it will be great that his students will have such a prominent contribution to the project.

“Everybody’s going to be able to see it,” he said. “We do so much stuff that nobody even knows about. Nobody knows what these kids can do, and so many people are going to drive by and see what they’ve done. I think that’s the best part about it.”

JMHS senior Zane Cubick has put in plenty of hours, along with about two dozen others, to bring this sculpture to life. Over the nearly 18 months of this project, Cubick welded together the kite, worked on the base and rewelded the figures in the statue, as many of the welds had cracked.

While Cubick will be the first to say he didn’t do this project by himself and that a fleet of people are responsible for it, he added that it will feel really good to see the final product go up at the outpatient clinic.

“It’s kind of a big chip on my shoulder,” he said. “I know that my time and my work is on that and I wanted to make it look the best I physically could.”

Jessica Moore, associate vice president of foundation and community relations for WVU Medicine Wheeling and Reynolds Memorial hospitals, said it is amazing to see high school students in the Ohio Valley help create such a significant piece to the final product of that outpatient center. It’s something she said those students will be able to look at with pride for years to come.

“I think ahead to when they’re adults and if they’re fortunate enough to have children or nieces and nephews, they can bring them to the center,” she said. “How cool is it for those little kids to be like, ‘Oh, my dad did that.'”

Moore said the stature should be done before Christmas and will be one of the last phases of construction, which should be completed by February.