We're in our "repurposing" unit and learning how to make a table out of encyclopedias. Many of us haven't heard of encyclopedias, only wikipedia and this is a way to make these books useful again! The goal is to use the encyclopedias as a column to support the round table top. We drilled a larger hole in each book with huge wood drill bits and the vaccuum to clean up saw dust. Last week we sanded the covers and stacked the books on the metal rod to support the table 'leg'. We used wood glue and hot glue. We're not done yet, but we're close! We still need to paint and attach the table top. More photos to come!
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Our piece, The Good, the Bad, and the #Best of Isla Vista, was just published in a peer-reviewed youth journal!! In this article, we present our teen leadership group and projects. We describe our "I'm a Student Too!" campaign, and why it is important to raise awareness about Latino/a children and families that live in Isla Vista, California, which has the reputation of being a college town. We outline our group's mandate to create a better, safer, and healthier place where youth and families can grow up. We then describe how we collected data on people's opinions of Isla Vista over the past two years and how we shared this information in town halls, University of California Santa Barbara orientations, and community conferences to make positive changes in our community. Authors reflecting on the writing process and article:
"'I'm a Student Too campaign' is important because it brought awareness to the IV community about safety and drug issues" --Odalis "I mostly helped with the editing. It was a long, lengthy process, but in the end I learned how to improve communication between community groups" --Brise "My piece in the article was about the Sound Project. I wrote this because I was more involved and interested in this part of the project, which drove me to analyze the stats and write this piece" --Victor "I contributed to the paper about what we're going to do next, the plans for the future and also what we could recommend for other leadership students or just leadership in general" --Brandon "Because most of us live and spend most of our time in Isla Vista, we deeply care about what happens here. Now with that said, thank you for giving us this opportunity and we're very excited for you guys to read our article" --Natalia |
AuthorSt. George Youth Center Teens Archives
October 2019
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