Noah Sherburne said he wasn’t expecting to be among the Top 10 students in the graduating class of 2017 at Boothbay Region High School. But he’s pleased that he is. “I’m more of a B student, but I think what helped me out was the A.P. (Advanced Placement) classes I took.” A.P. classes are full year classes that help prepare students for exams, which can count toward college credit.

Sherburne will attend Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston in the fall, to study architecture. He has been doing, and continues to do, an internship at Knickerbocker Group throughout his senior year. One of Knickerbocker Group’s staff members he has worked closely with is Danielle Betts.

“Noah is excellent – very smart, eager and excited to learn,” Betts said in an email. “He is very creative as well as technically savvy – a great and sometimes unusual combination. He blew some of our designers away with his graphic design skills (manipulating google earth images, drawings, etc. in Adobe photoshop and Sketchup).”

Sherburne said he has always liked designing things. “I liked playing with Legos and making things when I was young, but especially after doing the internship at Knickerbocker Group I know that architecture is really what I want to do.”

Boy Scouts is another passion of his. He has been a member of a troop in Jefferson for six years, and he earned his Eagle Scout merit badge in February. “I’d like to continue with a career in the Boy Scouts,” he said. “I’m 18 and an Eagle Scout, so the only thing left for me to do if I want to stay involved is scoutmaster training. Once I do that I can be a leader of other troops.”

To achieve Eagle Scout, he had to complete a project. His was in the form of an outdoor classroom, a whiteboard enclosure, at Southport Central School. Knickerbocker Group helped him with the design and donated the funds for the supplies he needed. “Initially the design called for cement posts to be placed in the ground, but the ground proved to be too wet. “So we decided to elevate it,” Sherburne said. “And it looks nice up between the trees.”

Sherburne worked at Boothbay Harbor Country Club last summer. He is hoping for an architecture internship somewhere this summer.

“Architecture is more quantitative thinking when it comes to designing things, but there are also aesthetics involved. You can design something, but you also have to make sure it looks good and that it’s structurally sound, and does what it’s supposed to do.”

His father, Bill Sherburne, has been a big inspiration for him. “He has pushed me to do the best that I can. He’s done a really good job of raising my sister and myself, especially as a single parent. He’s a really great person.”