SI Tech CAD in the Community
PS 16 Tompkinsville Park
In the Spring of 2017 I teamed up with Dr. Jared Jax and Mr. Rudy Miraki to work on a community project in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Tompkinsville Park is a well known park due to unfortunate news events, also a hangout normally for vagrants and not enough of a hangout for kids and families. The NYC Parks department, Island Voice, Staten Island Tech, and local elementary school PS 16 would lend hands together to beautify, update, secure, and make the park more family friendly.
Our school had wrapped up the Historic Richmond Town project not long before this, so we had a group of students and myself that were familiar with the logistical needs of a park including making it handicap friendly. Our students would visit the park with the students of PS 16 where we would attempt to come up with a theme for the park's new design, and inspire the PS 16 students to sketch their ideas for playground pieces and other features of the park. PS 16 was lead by a superb STEM teacher, Ms. Ego Onaga, and we were helped out a lot by Dr. Jax's friend, PS16 Assistant Principal Mr. Chris Allen. We also visited their classroom to
In the Spring of 2017 I teamed up with Dr. Jared Jax and Mr. Rudy Miraki to work on a community project in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Tompkinsville Park is a well known park due to unfortunate news events, also a hangout normally for vagrants and not enough of a hangout for kids and families. The NYC Parks Department, Island Voice, Staten Island Tech, and local elementary school PS 16 would lend hands together to beautify, update, secure, and make the park more family friendly. We met a few times to get things going, but the project was put on hold because we could not get our students to regularly visit, and then the PS 16 kids graduated.
We had good experiences helping them and hope to one day get back into the playground and park design business, with some people that can follow through with all the tough obstacles. |
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