Photos: Cedar Rapids buildings — in gingerbread

Metro High School STEAM Academy students create four sweet buildings for display at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids

Dec. 19, 2024 2:58 pm, Updated: Dec. 20, 2024 8:28 am

Metro High School senior Max Hammond, 17, pipes frosting onto a gingerbread replica of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Thursday at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids. The students also created gingerbread replicas of the Czech Village Clock Tower, the African American Museum of Iowa and the Veterans Memorial Building. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School students in the STEAM Academy class work together to build gingerbread replicas of Cedar Rapids buildings on Thursday at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids. The creations will be on display into the new year. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School senior Quinlan Akin, 18, creates bricks in the gingerbread replica of the Czech Village Clock Tower on Thursday in Cedar Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School freshmen Hannah Feller, 15, uses a hot glue gun to secure candy to a gingerbread replica of the Cedar Rapids Public Library. Metro students, as part of a STEAM Academy annual Architectural Gingerbread Project built gingerbread replicas of four Cedar Rapids buildings. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School freshmen Hannah Feller, 15, glues candy to a gingerbread replica of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Thursday. The annual project teaches math skills and encourages creativity. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School senior Nishamae Manabusan, 18, puts frosting on a pretzel to make a window Thursday for the gingerbread replica of the African American Museum of Iowa. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Candy awaits transfer to gingerbread replicas Thursday at NewBo City Market. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School junior Ray Dukes, 17, adds cotton candy to create the illusion of snow on a gingerbread replica of the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids. Metro students in the STEAM Academy designed, built and decorated replicas of four buildings in Cedar Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School junior Kaianna Randle (left), 16, and senior Nishamae Manabusan, 18, add letters to the gingerbread replica of the African American Museum of Iowa on Thursday at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School junior Finn Robinson Valley, 17, works on a gingerbread replica of the Czech Village Clock Tower for the STEAM Academy class at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

Metro High School senior Jordyn Hitchcock, 18, decorates a gingerbread replica of the Cedar Rapids Public Library during a Thursday STEAM Academy class at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette)

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