April 17th at Casey

As we are nearing the end of the after school design club, I believe that the last few weeks have been the most successful weeks of the whole semester. As of last Thursday, we have about 5 Casey students who have come every week for the last 3 weeks. As far as this last week goes, I believe that the children love the hands on activities and the one on one interaction with the CU students. The activity for this last week was successful in a few different ways. Not only did we have enough Casey students to have the ideal student to student ratio, but the kids also had a lot of freedom in what they decided to do. Unlike every other design club meeting, this week, the children had their choice of one of 3 activities: continue their community model, create a physical green roof design, or create a green roof design using sketch up. This is the factor that the kids loved the most. Of course it helped a ton that we had Dominoes delivered to the school. But overall, I believe that the Design Club meetings are getting better every week, I just wished that we had more time with the Casey students.

Joanna Kropelnicki