Then, with funding from the Ministry of Education's Creative Education Project and the National Science Council's Sustainable Village project, CYCU architecture graduate students came to the "big classroom" that was Tiehpan. On average, they come once a month in groups of two to 20 and stay for four or five days.
隨後在教育部「創意學養計畫」和國科會「永續聚落」的專案經費贊助下，中原建築系研究生年年都進駐鐵板「大教室」，平均每月一次，每次二、三位到十多位同學不等，停留四、五天和居民互動，提案設計，歷時 5 年不曾間斷。