Long Island, ME: Summer Recycling Creativity 2007
Architects are taking old train crates to make homes. Someone has turned old vinyl records into bowls. Someone else has come up with a lighter-weight "concrete block" for building houses with, by mixing concrete with chewed up styrofoam from styrofoam cups and the like. People make shoes out of cut-up tires. And then there are people who take old furniture and rehabilitate it, or use the wood to create something new.
Your mission for this summer class is to come up with ideas, concepts, and then a project for stuff that washes up on the beaches or is on Long Island already. Yep ... recycling. Or, alternately, to come up with an idea about how Long Island can recycle its own everyday "waste" into products. You will come up with not just an idea, but work to transform that idea into a product.
You will be engaged in politics, social policy, beliefs, engineering, design, and creativity: first to some up with an idea, then to transform the idea, and all during this process to wonder how to market the idea.
I will be intimately helpful along everyone's path, and I may suggest people team up.
No supplies are necessary, since your supplies are ones you'll find.
Your mission for this summer class is to come up with ideas, concepts, and then a project for stuff that washes up on the beaches or is on Long Island already. Yep ... recycling. Or, alternately, to come up with an idea about how Long Island can recycle its own everyday "waste" into products. You will come up with not just an idea, but work to transform that idea into a product.
You will be engaged in politics, social policy, beliefs, engineering, design, and creativity: first to some up with an idea, then to transform the idea, and all during this process to wonder how to market the idea.
I will be intimately helpful along everyone's path, and I may suggest people team up.
No supplies are necessary, since your supplies are ones you'll find.
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My name is Melissa Brown and I am the secretary for the Long Island Recreation Department. I am also putting together our 2007 Summer brochure. Alanna Rich recently told me that you were interested in teaching a class in our program. Could you email me at lillystar3@aol.com or call 766-2552 to let me know what class, when, cost, and what ages? Also, how much would you charge for your time? Or perhaps you would volunteer your time?
Thanks so much!
Melissa