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.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Meeting Minutes 2.9.11


Meet Sunday before the meeting to do some group discussion

Items to discuss:
     ·      The schedule
   o      We’re going to keep the Wednesday meetings till 5:30 
     ·      Process of making the pamphlets
   o      What is being laser cut and what is being silk screened for sure
     ·      How we are going to delegate tasks
   o      Two people working on the models
                 Dan
                 Sabrina
   o      Four people working on the pamphlet and logo
                 Becky, Jen, Sara, Markie working on the pamphlet and logo
                 Leeanna take pictures of progress and help with logo
     ·      Workshop Plan
   o      Posting sign up sheets for students from the Phoenix Center to  volunteer to get involved with   designing and printing the T-Shirts and Pamphlets
                 Helps to narrow down the number of students who want to get involved
                      Talk to Wayne about how many students are interested or how we should select students    to participate
     ·      Leeanna and Dan can help with organizing the workshops with the kids
                 Designing the T-Shirts with the Phoenix Center kids
                      Meet with them and come up with designs for t-shirt
     ·      And then come up with three designs they can choose from
   o      The whole group goes to Phoenix Center and have a workshop with the students.
   o      Meet them on a Thursday at 4:00 (preferably next Thursday)
                 Have the pamphlet done so we can show Wayne and get his feedback
   o      When we meet with Dusty to learn screen printing we should have the pamphlet done to burn the screens at the tutorials
                 Students writing in testimonials

Sunday goals Meeting Sunday at 2:00 in Colab
     ·      Crit logo
     ·      Talk about t-shirt design for silk screening workshop
     ·      Finalize pamphlet
     ·      Critique Pamphlet
     ·      Discuss partition Models with Sabrina and Dan

We’re going for the Matt Board for the pamphlets
     ·      Dan is going to get the rest of the matt board for the pamphlets
   o      The size of the matt board is 14x17
     ·      Ask Alison to come in Sunday and help us with the laser cutting
   o      Have some models of the pamphlet before Sunday to see how it should all fold together.

Jen Sara, Jen H Becky and Markie are meeting Tuesday at 12:00 to talk about the Pamphlet 
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