Productive Week 2

Wednesday March 12 was a much more productive and focused day than our first week of the after school design club. The day started off with the icebreaker activity and similarly to last week had a slightly goofy feel to it. Many of the boys were trying to be silly and mess around like last week. They were misbehaving until Luis told them in Spanish to behave. The architect’s arrival helped shift the mood of the group. Derek is the name of the architect for the future Casey Middle and his mannerisms seemed to shift the focus to a much more intelligent and focused manner. The 6th graders seemed interested by the Sketch-Up models of the proposal for the new building. Some of them were so excited about the building where they will never go to school that they suggested that they wanted to fail and stay back a grade in order to experience going to the new school. The next part of the design club was a fun activity where the Casey students worked with CU students to design a portion of the school on trace over the actual plan for the new building. I had the opportunity to work with Victor on his ideas for the green roof and he came up with some valuable ideas about the layout and his intensions for the use of the space. Overall I think that the tempo of the group is building momentum and definitely improved from last week.
-Brett