Project ART

Blog Post #1

The first day of the Community Builder Project, our group, Town Green 3, met for the first time. During our first hours together we did what any other group meeting for the first time would do, we introduced ourselves. The goal of that first day was to get to know each other and what our roles we going to be in the group. 

We all got in a circle, some of us on desks, others in chairs, and introduced ourselves like in the first workshop we did. We each said our name, "kryptonite", and most importantly, our superpower. In this way we all got a brief glimpse of each other's roles and our own. I took this time to remember everyone's names and take the position as engineer in the group (and electric engineer if need be).

Map of Town Green

 Our second goal to accomplish that day was to visit the site and make a map to mark down observations. We did this as a group before going to the Town Green and were assigned a partner and area. Here me and another group member took note of how many people walked by, how many sat down, and their age. We also found a volunteer in the community garden to talk to when finding another group interviewing her. When we got back to school we were each assigned to another time to do observations and interviews at the Town Green with at least one other person. I was partnered with Allegra to go that very day. Here I took some notes, marked the map, and conducted three interviews with her.  

1 of 3 interviews

 I felt very confident that the project would get done on time at the end of that day. We had just gotten the project and were already a third of the way done with interviews. We had also seen our English teacher when doing our observations and she was excited to see us working the project on a Friday afternoon. I hadn't realized it before, but we were progressing quickly. This made me feel that our project would be well put together.

Observations at Town Green