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.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Meeting Minutes 3.9.11

Hello Everybody!
 

I apologize for the delay in meeting minutes!! However, things have been progressing as usual here is what we've been discussing the past few weeks!


3.9.11

Mary Ann Shaw Dinner: Table Center Pieces
     ·      Plant boxes
     ·      Tubes:
    o      Flowers are expensive
                   Maybe do paper flowers or origami flowers
                      Tissue paper flowers
     ·      Possibly cut them on the laser cutter to make them more elegant
     ·      Alison will try and get some cut flowers done over spring break as a sample
              Still nature orientated but cheaper and also something people can take home

Jen, Markie, and Jen  
     ·      Met last week and it went well
     ·      Wayne likes what is on the brochures now and is really excited about the March 30th dinner
    o      Also Wayne supports the look of the kids on the back of the pamphlet even though its very literal
     ·      The only thing we have left to get is the list of collaborators to finish off the pamphlet and then its ready to print!
     ·      Maybe make the pamphlet bigger for the table display just so people could see it
    o      Printing the center pieces on the sticker paper to save time and money rather than screen printing them
Solidified some things on looking at the site evaluation
     ·      Things we can feasibly do
     ·      Jen and Markie are going over the entrance design
    o      Come up with a reception for upstairs and try and sell it to Wayne so that we don’t have to take away from the design of the entrance by having the sign in area downstairs
    o      Adding a bench to the bottom of the letters
    o      Using bendy board to wrap around the structure of the letters to get them to look like solid objects without having to waste material on actually making them solid
                   Talk to a fabricator to find a better way to create this kind of case work
                      Do some basic elevation and construction documents to give to the fabricator
                   A cabinet shop would be more likely to do this than a construction company: they may write up their own plans too.
     ·      What is the process of adding dry wall ceiling
    o      Support system
    o      Tricky to remove the existing ceiling tile
                   We’ll have to get a contractor to look at it (and at the floor too)
                      There is concrete under the ceramic tile
     ·      Wayne is cool with taking the tile off and then we can paint the lines directly on the concrete.

Becky drew up some more sketches to elaborate on her library benches
     ·      Adding a back for support
     ·      Figuring out structural supports

Exploring the College Room
     ·      Don’t understand their options
    o      Make it an attainable choice in their life
Ask Wayne for a list of Hillside Graduates that did go to college and ask them for some advice on how to get into college
     ·      Next Step: Make these ideas visual: have some sketches and ideas Wayne can react to.

In two or three weeks we should have another meeting with Wayne
     ·      Show him some sketches of our ideas for the college room and some of our other ideas

Regroup on Wednesday after school break 
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