Go Green Pictures: Sweat Equity

Sweat Equity is an arts design course.  It is part of the UA Institute summer program.  One of their projects was to create a logo for the Green Team.  Today they ran a focus group on the logos they came up with.

Tawanna presenting her logos

Samarriah presenting her logos and getting feedback from Illyia.

Imoni thought that this logo would be great on a gray shirt.  

Tawanna writing down everyone's comments.

Go Green Pictures: Courtyard Work

Yesterday

Yesterday the Green Team started building our flower beds. We also figured out the measurements needed for the flower bed. We cut up the wood needed and put then together although we did not nail them together. We put them like that so that we would have an idea of how the flower beds should be at the end. We did that for 20 minutes and we had to switch with  the other group that was in our computer lab. Then when the last group came up stairs we did what the group did before us. We had to research different topics that we will have to present.

BY:MOSI HINDS

Building time

Today we started building out our flower pots to gather our plants into. We learned how to create the flower pots by using mathematics for building the beds. We also did research on urban farming in cities, towns &  villages. we learned that making this bed will help us finish our garden to be an beautiful outdoor spaces that are economy friendly.  We also learned that building is hard work and our math had to be correct or else our flower beds might be inefficient. So, wish us luck!

        by: Maya S & Oneesha D 

Go Green Pictures: Research Project and Construction

Today the girls started their research projects and building the flower beds.  For the research project the girls were in teams of two.  Their projects were on either green roofs or urban farming. 

In the basement, the girls worked with two carpenters.  They had to look over the flower bed plans and calculate how much wood was needed to cut.  

Go Green Pictures: Majora Carter

Majora Carter Part I

Monday we learned about a lady named Majora Carter.  She has a wonderful husband.  She is from the south Bronx in New York.  In the 1940's her parents were part of the migration from the South into the Bronx.  She talked about the white flight and Robert Moses.  Robert Moses made highways and destroyed communities.  

One day she took a run with her dog.  Her dog dragged her to what she thought was a dump.  Behind the dump was a river.  She then started to organize her community and changed the dump to a 3 million dollar park.

More to come....

By Rema Bryce