Description
Start Date-End Date: 04/22/2018-04/22/2018
Land Manager Office: City and County of Denver - Parks and Recreation
Land Manager Contact: Tina Myers
Funding Partner: Aveda Corporation
Programmatic Partner:
Summary: An Earth Day Youth SWAT for 10th graders from Strive-Rise Prep in the Montbello neighborhood of Aurora.
Description: Park Maintenance
Latitude/Longitude: 39.783789, -104.827308
Additional Information:
Camping Available: No
Physical Difficulty: Easy
High Altitude Project: No
Desired Number of Volunteers: 20
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 3
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 22
Total Volunteer Days: 25
Total Unique Volunteers: 25
Total Volunteer Hours: 100
Staff Hours: 6
Stipend Hours: 0
Project Summary: 22 youth convened on their neighborhood park to help give back to their public spaces. The original plan was for students to mulch trees, but the park maintenance staff changed the project to trash pick-up and clearing the duff from below all of the park's coniferous trees.
The students worked hard to clear 52 trees of duff, filling up three DPR staff dump-trucks worth of compostable material and filled 4 large trash bags with trash.
The students expressed enjoying giving back to a park that a lot of them spent ample time at.
Successes and Challenges: Success
Made a park-to-school connection and they will be continuing these projects directly with one another.
Challenges
Finding really rewarding work in public parks through Tina Meyers
Originally the project was set to take place at Parkfield Lake but was moved last min. by DPR to Montbello Central Park maintenance needed.
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Details
| 12 and older |
