About Students for Success

Hello all and welcome to the Colab 400 Phoenix Center project: Phoenix Rising. This interior design endeavor, undertaken by Syracuse University Interior Design Seniors and their professors, Jen Hamilton and Chris McCray, will aim to transform the after school program, the Phoenix Center, housed in the former Hillside school, into an environment that reflects their student’s aspirations, goals and potential. Throughout the spring 2011 semester, our team, Students for Success, will formulate a cohesive design scheme generated from a studio project completed in the fall of 2010. As a team, we will carry the project beyond schematic design, and into build-out. Through a diligent exploration of the potential of good design, we can transform the Phoenix Center into a place that enables achievement in its aspirations and goals.

History and Mission of the Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection

The Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, located in Syracuse, New York, is an after school program that encourages students to successfully complete their high school education and graduate. This program reaches out to students who exhibit two out of six risk factors:

poor attendance
over-age for grade level
failure in two or more core subjects
multiple school suspensions
low standardized test scores
living in poverty

The Hillside program approaches their goals by teaching 7th to 12th grade students career development and helping them with their homework, as well as providing mentoring and after school extra-curricular activities. Most importantly, Hillside works diligently to instill a sense of motivation, self-confidence and self-pride in their students. Their approach involves around the clock mentors who check-in with the students every morning at the students’ public high school, as well as transport them to and from their high school to the Phoenix Center, and eventually to their individual homes. Hillside is a successful and dedicated organization whose members are not just educational mentors but also act as life coaches and dependable adults these adolescents can turn to for support and stability.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Meeting Minutes 2.2.11

Here's some of the team discussing some logo ideas!

Introducing new members:
·      Sabrina, Alison, Dan
  o      Dan: new member interested in helping kids learn creative skills
               Not doing if for credit, just because he wants to.

Discussed Firm Name:
·      Students helping students
  o      About creative education
·      Ed on Ed
·      Student to Student  S2S student (arrow) student/ success
·      Design on Ed
·      Students designing education
·      Designing for the future
·      Design for a Difference
·      A (arrow) Z design

Firm name: Students for Success
Project name: Phoenix Rising

Total Phoenix Rising: Students for Success

Brochure Progress
·      Intro to the story of what we’re doing
·      Using renderings of what we have
·      Design of the model
·      Brochure Design: Pamphlet design
  o      Opens in a sequence
  o      The outline of the table shape could be a border/outline
·      Positives
  o      The fold, allusion to table shape,
  o      The fold allows a story to unfold
·      Possible Issues
  o      Production of it: strange format
  o      We should probably keep it to a traditional size
                11X17 is the best price range
                We could possibly use the laser cutter
                Print them all 11X17 double sided, stack them all up and then print them on the laser     cutter
                      Even cut out the notches on the laser cutter
                      Try and them to fit well on an 11x17 sheet to save paper.
                      Or even make them larger: like presentation boards
·      Play with scale
·      We’ll need probably 150 to 200 brochures
·      Thinking about responsible materials
  o      printing on craft paper/cereal boxes/reused papers
·      Having students hand write their testimonials into the brochure
  o      Having the laser cut out line drawings, photos of the students, and text.
                Scoring
  o      Keeping the images simple so that it isn’t expensive
·      Changing our renderings into sketches highlighting the most important ideas
  o      Have one person do them so they’re all cohesive
  o      Possibly do them on cad
                Nice clean drawings on rough material (cereal boxes)
·      Laser cutter seems like the way to go
·      We should do a sample print first
·      Start getting boxes from Hillside
·      Silk screen them instead of printing
  o      Phoenix center kids could come and help us
  o      Could say produced by phoenix center
                Writing testimonials on them

Plan of action
·      Figure out how it will get cut out: Jen
·      Layout design: Jen
·      Secure the materials: Alison
·      Logos: Markie
·      Jen and Becky and Sabrina will start to experiment with table panels
·      Sarah can turn a rendering into a line drawing and print it on the laser cutter to see what it looks like.

Leave the cereal box exposed
·      Sticky tape Markie’s image on the cover
  o      Could mass print on a big sticker 
·      Line drawings on the inside

Decided to meet Mondays for quick meetings and Wednesday for longer meetings

Doing a silk screening workshop and writing workshop for testimonials
·      Teaching the phoenix center students screen printing skills.

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