Georgetown High School Transforms its Media Center into a Student-Centric Space A two-year plan to upgrade an aging media center culminates into a space where flexible furniture supports a wide range of academia and social activities on campus. With about 950 students in grades 9-12, Georgetown High School in South Carolina was in the planning stages of a media center overhaul when George Geer came onboard as media specialist. At his first planning meeting, Geer was asked about his “plans” by the project’s architects. “I didn’t realize I was the one who was driving the bus,” he says, “and I figured they would tell me what was going to happen.” Wanting to push beyond the limits of the traditional media center—a rigid atmosphere, solid oak desks, and furniture that was difficult

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