Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thursday January 29th
Today we started our marble tile transfers and learned more about global water use. Do you know how much drinkable water we actually have on this planet? Not much. Our photo blogger Jessica took the photos below...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday January 27th!
"Today Ms. Ladye Jane (from the Raleigh City Museum) came and talked to us about Raleigh water. We made two postcards, one about historic Raleigh in general, another about Raleigh water." - Hannah, student participant (pictured above)
Photos above by Noura!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Day 1!
We had our first session of the CAM after school program on Thursday January 22nd. All 18 kids were present! It was great to finally meet all the kids and get started on this exciting program. We were supposed to start our program on Tuesday, but it snowed!
We will be posting to this blog after each after school session. AND our participating students will be sharing their thoughts and photos to post here as well. Unfortunately we did not give our first student blogger very much time to write so I will be adding her post next week.
Our blog photographer for the day, Emma, took these photos of the students working on their historical Raleigh postcards...
We are off to a great start!
We will be posting to this blog after each after school session. AND our participating students will be sharing their thoughts and photos to post here as well. Unfortunately we did not give our first student blogger very much time to write so I will be adding her post next week.
Our blog photographer for the day, Emma, took these photos of the students working on their historical Raleigh postcards...
We are off to a great start!
Monday, January 5, 2009
2009 Program!
We cannot wait to start our 2009 after school program with Moore Square Museums Magnet Middle School. Students will be registering this week!
Monday, April 28, 2008
More Student Photos!
Here are some student photos of downtown Raleigh. Do you recognize any of these places?
{Student names are under their photo}
{Student names are under their photo}
By Taylor
By Logan
By Kristen
By Klaus
By Kieanna
By Justice
By Josh
By Haley
By Erin
By Christian
By Chelsea
By Charles
By Anna
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Week Three
This week we met with Elizabeth Alley from the Raleigh Urban Design Center AND Ken Bowers from Raleigh City Planning. We have included some of our conversation with Elizabeth Alley below...
Raleigh Urban Design Center:
We met with Elizabeth Alley of the Urban Design Center and learned about new projects going on in the downtown area:
Such as:
The neighborhood around the Governor's Mansion with old houses and new developments, Hotels with shops and elevator art, the Convention Center, the train station proposed for the warehouse district, Green Building, a City Plaza, who is the Downtown Raleigh Alliance and what is Raleigh Wide Open.
Elizabeth let us ask questions and voice our opinions. The Urban Design Center often hosts community forums to get feedback from Raleigh's citizens about plans for Raleigh.
Justice: What is the use of the RBC center?
Elizabeth: Shops on ground floor, offices and condos with balconies above
Josh: What type of fuel will the transit trains use?
Elizabeth: diesel
Josh: Doesn't that pollute?
Elizabeth: Yes to some degree. There has been some talk of eventually converting to biodeisel.
*The group then concluded that they would recommend that the City start off using biodeisel with the trains since the train stations have not yet been built.
Justice: Are we going to bring trolleys back?
Elizabeth: Yes, first engine driven and maybe eventually electric
Students: How do you get businesses that you want downtown, if we want a type of business, what do we do? The kids want more kid-friendly businesses downtown with things to do for teens
Lee: It would be great for the Downtown Raleigh Alliance to help recruit these businesses.
Logan: Does the city build these places or commission them?
Elizabeth: The city makes the rules and the developers build
Erin: Since lots of people are moving here, we need sky scrapers to fit them all in.
Students: We see lots of homeless people in Moore Square..does the city have any plans to help these people?
Elizabeth: There is a plan to end homeless in Raleigh in 10 years, working with prisons and mental facilities and helping during transition.
Josh: Do you think about the wildlife when developing...where will/do they go?
Elizabeth: Raleigh is always looking for new park space
Other ideas proposed by the students:
Kids proposed a public art idea for the building on the corner of Person and Martin Streets that used to be a gas station..to re-use the light fixtures in colored light and paint the building in fun colors with horse murals.
Raleigh Urban Design Center:
We met with Elizabeth Alley of the Urban Design Center and learned about new projects going on in the downtown area:
Such as:
The neighborhood around the Governor's Mansion with old houses and new developments, Hotels with shops and elevator art, the Convention Center, the train station proposed for the warehouse district, Green Building, a City Plaza, who is the Downtown Raleigh Alliance and what is Raleigh Wide Open.
Elizabeth let us ask questions and voice our opinions. The Urban Design Center often hosts community forums to get feedback from Raleigh's citizens about plans for Raleigh.
Justice: What is the use of the RBC center?
Elizabeth: Shops on ground floor, offices and condos with balconies above
Josh: What type of fuel will the transit trains use?
Elizabeth: diesel
Josh: Doesn't that pollute?
Elizabeth: Yes to some degree. There has been some talk of eventually converting to biodeisel.
*The group then concluded that they would recommend that the City start off using biodeisel with the trains since the train stations have not yet been built.
Justice: Are we going to bring trolleys back?
Elizabeth: Yes, first engine driven and maybe eventually electric
Students: How do you get businesses that you want downtown, if we want a type of business, what do we do? The kids want more kid-friendly businesses downtown with things to do for teens
Lee: It would be great for the Downtown Raleigh Alliance to help recruit these businesses.
Logan: Does the city build these places or commission them?
Elizabeth: The city makes the rules and the developers build
Erin: Since lots of people are moving here, we need sky scrapers to fit them all in.
Students: We see lots of homeless people in Moore Square..does the city have any plans to help these people?
Elizabeth: There is a plan to end homeless in Raleigh in 10 years, working with prisons and mental facilities and helping during transition.
Josh: Do you think about the wildlife when developing...where will/do they go?
Elizabeth: Raleigh is always looking for new park space
Other ideas proposed by the students:
Kids proposed a public art idea for the building on the corner of Person and Martin Streets that used to be a gas station..to re-use the light fixtures in colored light and paint the building in fun colors with horse murals.
Week Two
We spent most of this week taking lots of photos of downtown Raleigh! Lee asked us to look at downtown and take photos that show our unique perspective...
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