Hey everybody!
Local outreach is new to EWB-UC. Currently, the Education Committee (a new section of our chapter) has completed talks with William Howard Taft Elementary. We are officially one of their weekly after school programs! And what are we doing, do you ask? This after school program is going to focus around the pillars of our group, but also around a national competition - Future Cities (http://www.futurecity.org/). This national competition for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders challenges students to envision their ideal city of the future. Many schools from around the nation will compete in regional competitions which must showcase a digital rendering of the city, an engineering report, and the presentation of a scale 3D model of a section of the city! We are very excited to have our first ever Future Cities after school program meeting this Tuesday, February 1st. To better help the students recognize us, we will all have program shirts to wear to every meeting. EWB uses an interesting style of t-shirt printing - sustainable and creative, of course! Screen printing, just as was used with our EWB chapter shirts, gives us a template which can be used over and over - and we can choose as many color combinations as we'd like!
Look for posts on progress of Future Cities: Sustainable Design By Children, EWB's first ever after school program initiative in the near future!
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