Studio DC 2019

Community Stormwater Solutions 2019 Grant Proposal

STUDIO DC

Maisie Hughes Kendra Hyson Jackie Sadeghi RFA# 2019-1903-WPD

STUDIO DC

Community Stormwater Solutions If you are a 16-year-old resident of DC, you live in a rapidly developing and increasingly competitive city. Through no effort of your own, change is happening all around you.

Image: Kenilworth Aquatic Garden Students

If you live in the Hickey Run subwatershed, your home may abut industrial uses that means your subwatershed is the most impaired tributary to the Anacostia river. If you live in Watts Branch, you are at incredible risk for losing life or property from a flood event. While these threats are real, you may not be aware that they exist. Every day designers, developers, policymakers, and elected officials create and re-create your environment without your input because you are left out of the planning process for your own community. While the problems in your watershed are solvable, you would likely don’t know that design thinking can transform not only your community, it can transform 2

Studio DC | Introduction

how you see the world and your role in it. The Studio DC project will engage 10 high school students 16+ years old in the transformative power of design thinking. Over a 10-week Saturday program, students will become experts in water quality issues impacting their family, neighbors, and friends. The multi-age, interdisciplinary program will be led by design professionals, college students of design, and a variety of volunteer professionals working to help create a more sustainable city.

Unlike other youth programs that focus on tactical landscape maintenance and remediation, this program will expose participants to design thinking, the design process, and design careers.

STUDIO DC

Community Stormwater Solutions

Program target areas (highlights right) included: Public and Charter High Schools in Wards 5 & 7 specifically those located near the Hickey Run, Watts, and Nash Run watersheds.

Maisie Hughes

Program Manager

Kendra Hyson Lead Instructor

Jackie Sadeghi

Curriculum & Program Development

Youth Engagement

Landscape + Urban Design

Environmental Education

Stormwater Management

Community Engagement

Green Technology

Maisie believes all people deserve daily access to nature. Her approach to landscape architecture is driven by the belief that environmental justice is not just a basic human right, it is an human imperative.

Kendra’s passion for community engagement and enthusiasm for social equity and sustainability, applied through culturally sensitive design, is the core sentiment behind her presence in the field of landscape architecture.

Jackie is a passionate educator who is determined to arm the next generation of young minds with the tools they need to address the worlds most pressing environmental issues.

Studio DC | Introduction

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STUDIO DC Team

BIO

Image: Kenilworth Aquatic Garden

The leaders of Studio DC have crafted a compelling project that will offer high school students the opportunity to engage more deeply with their communities and the local ecology of their own backyards. In the bring a deep passion for environmental stewardship and a personal understanding of the challenges facing some of the District’s declining watersheds.

Maisie brings decades of leadership and management to her practice. As a 2018-2019 Leadership and Innovation Fellow with the Landscape Architecture Foundation, she Maisie Hughes explores identity in a documentary series that Landscape Architect records how variety of people interpret the same five urban landscapes. The honest and unvarnished insights provide a framework for people centered design. Maisie won the National Capital Area Chapter of the American Planning Association 2016 Fredrick Gutheim Award for Distinguished Leadership by a Professional Planner and the 2014 Award of Merrit for the “Citizen Advocate Handbook”. Maisie is an urban designer and Certified Arborist with a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Morgan State University and a Bachelors of Arts in Afro American Studies from Howard University.

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Kendra is a Senior Planner for the MarylandNational Capitol Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), working to promote the Montgomery County Planning Department’s Design Excellence Kendra Hyson and Sustainability program. Prior to her work with Landscape Architect M-NCPPC, she served as a Project Coordinator for the Neighborhood Design Center, focusing on developing healthy, equitable neighborhoods through community engaged design processes. While at NDC, Kendra worked specifically with the Arbor Day Every Day reforestation and tree advocacy program to engage K-12 students in the importance of design, stormwater management and native vegetation. Kendra has been working with students and young people for over 10 years. First, as a Recreation Specialist for DC Department of Parks and Recreation, developing and facilitating aquatic programming; and currently as the lead instructor for a budding landscape architecture elective at IDEA Public Charter School’s Academy for Construction and Design. Kendra also presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Kendra’s education, wide array of experience and deep commitment to supporting youth engagement in design have shaped her creative and collaborative approach to landscape architecture.

Kendra holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona and is a certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape professional and also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Spelman College.

Jackie’s education which is rooted in ecology combined with her teaching experience, has given her the opportunity to help students and citizens Jackie Sadeghi experience, appreciate, and become stewards of Environmental the natural environment through creative and Educator thoughtful educational programs and civic projects.

Her professional experience has always been rooted in social justice—by way of environmental education. As an urban educator, she has come to understand what it takes to bring diverse groups of people together for a common cause. She’s adept at making connections and networking with various stakeholders in order to create a successful program. As a teacher, she has been awarded the Chesapeake Bay Trust Grant two times, which has enabled her to use Washington, D.C. as a living classroom – specifically utilizing local waterways to teach about watershed issues. Her personal and professional goals are to work to bring public awareness and engagement around environmental issues and facilitate projects that will bring about positive and lasting change for the planet.

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MAISIE HUGHES Certified Arborist

E: maisie@designvirtue.com | W: designvirtue.com | P: 202.230.9788

EXPERIENCE Principal

Planning for people, plants and places based on core design principles: empathy, introspection, generosity, responsibility, and innovation. Develop and nurture customer and professional relationships, and manage business direction. Lead the design, development scheduling and delivery of customer solutions. Supervise contractors, manage and manage contracts.

Director, Design + Advocacy

Collaborated with policy-makers, developers, designers, and business leaders to ensure plans, designs, and construction techniques protected existing trees and created spaces to grow healthy trees. Created and disseminated best practices for sustainable urban landscape design. Presented at conferences, workshops and trainings for professionals and volunteers (taught 60+ continuing education classes 40+ LID Tours). Lead design projects that reforest urban areas or feature trees in Low Impact Development. Coordinated urban design grants and Fee For Service projects. Developed Casey Trees’ Citizen Advocate Handbook” and “Urban Tree Selection Guide.”

Landscape Architect + Environmental Designer

Supervised the Environmental Design, Grounds, and Recycling sections of the Physical Plant Department.

Implemented the university’s landscape master plan and coordinated landscape architectural services for university projects. Developed schematic studies, preliminary plans, working drawings and specifications.

Provided guidance, design and programmatic framework for the restoration of Herring Run in conjunction with community partners and conserved 8.5 acres of university forest.

Design Virtue Jan 2018 - Present

Casey Trees 2009 - 2017

Morgan State University 2007 - 2009

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Studio DC | Resumes

Program Associate

DC Parks and Rec 1999 - 2004

Directed the operations for an environmental education summer camp, after-school program and a mentoring and training program. Created environmental education and leadership curricula and trained staff and program participants. Taught adult education classes in computer literacy, career development, and sustainability. . Served as a State Facilitator for Water Education for Teachers (Project WET), Project Learning Tree (PLT), and Project Wild environmental education training programs.

EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture | Urban Planning Concentration Morgan State University Goldsecker Scholarship 2008

Bachelor of Arts | African American Studies Howard University 2001

AWARDS Frederick Gutheim Award for Distinguished Leadership in Planning | National Capital Area Chapter American Planning Association 2016

Award for Merit in Outstanding Social Commitment Casey Trees’ Citizen Advocate Handbook | National Capital Area Chapter American Planning Association 2016

Trees & Power Lines Design Competition | Austin Energy $10,000 Prize Winner

SKILLS

InDesign | Illustrator | Photoshop | ArcGIS | AutoCAD, Word | Excel | PowerPoint | Salesforce

Studio DC | Resumes

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MAISIE HUGHES | Selected Works Trees + Low Impact Development

The Casey Trees Headquarters captures stormwater and creates rooting space for trees to grow large and healthy tree canopy using Silva Cells.

By connecting public and private space and providing over 1,000 cubic feet of soil volume per tree, the site can up to a manage a 5” rainfall event. The project also includes three green roofs, cool roofs, and curbside bioretention. Built in 2009, the project was one of DC’s first LID projects featuring canopy trees.

Landscape Design & Tree Selection: Maisie Hughes Site Engineering: Marcelo Lopez, Wiles Mench Corporation Graphics: Maisie Hughes, Emily Oaksford, Eliisa Carter

Casey Trees Entry Way

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Casey Trees (Private Property) Bioretention featuring native trees and plan

12th Street NE (Public) Curbside Bioretention

MAISIE HUGHES | Selected Works Casey Trees Citizen Advocate Handbook

The Handbook arms Casey Trees volunteers with design, urban planning and arboricultural principles.

Project Lead & Author: Maisie Hughes Design and Research Team: Maisie Hughes, Kristin Taddei, Suraj Sazwal, Eliisa Carter & John Nicoll

Using clear language and graphics, the Handbook arms advocates with an understanding of how to advocate for trees in developments, community plans, laws, and policies.

The Handbook won the 2015 American Planning Association - National Area Chapter Award for Outstanding Social Engagement.

Citizen Advocay 2012

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KENDRA HYSON

Certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional E: kendrachyson@gmail.com | P: 202.203.8427

EXPERIENCE Senior Planner

Responsible for developing and implementing community plans, neighborhood revitalization programs and planning throughout Montgomery County Maryland.

Assisting with the implementation or the county’s Design Excellence and Sustainability programs.

Working to develop design standards for all future urban development.

Lead Instructor

Working with Ward 7 high school students interested in design professions to build an elective that will help develop skills in critical and creative thinking, sustainable design, problem solving, analysis, evaluation, and teamwork.

Board of Directors

Collaborate with leading professionals in the fields of planning, landscape architecture and finance to develop strategies that advocate for the profession of landscape architecture, climate change initiatives and work to promote innovation and leadership within the profession.

Project Coordinator

Managed multiple community development projects focused on issues surrounding neighborhood planning, streetscaping, landscape design and stormwater management best practices through community engagement, and participatory design methodologies.

Coordinated with volunteer design professionals, community stake holders and partners to develop concept design plans for a variety of project typologies.

Facilitated community driven visioning workshops and developed community engagement strategies for neighborhood development projects, to gain insight into community wants and needs. Supervised the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment Arbor Day Every Day program. A PG County school based program that provides free native trees and shrubs to schools. Working with school administrations and green teams to coordinate projects.

Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission Present

IDEA Public Charter School | Academy for Construction & Design 2018

The Landscape Architecture Foundation 2016 - Present

The Neighborhood Design Center 2016 - 2019

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Studio DC | Resumes

Landscape Designer

Gained knowledge of District and Federal laws and codes regarding zoning and redevelopment in order to deliver site construction documents for a variety of city wide projects and clients. Assisted in the development of stormwater management plans and strategies in compliance with all Virginia, District and Maryland codes and regulations.

Recreation Specialist Aquatics

Scheduled and managed participant activities, prepared and disseminated posters, fliers and other information for events, activities and service availability. Day-today management of programs and activities, staffing, and safety of recreation participants. Conducted swim instruction and facilitated camp and subsequent activities with youth ages 6 - 13 years old.

LandDesign Inc. 2015 - 2016

DC Parks and Rec 2012 - 2015

EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture | Sustainable Urban Design Concentration The University of Arizona Olmsted Scholar 2015

Bachelor of Fine Arts | Environmental Art Concentration Spelman College 2011

AWARDS University Olmsted Scholar | The University of Arizona The Landscape Architecture Foundation 2015

ASLA Honor Award | American Society of Landscape Architects Arizona Chapter 2015

Spelman College Research Day | First Place in Sustainability in Art Spelman College 2011

SKILLS

ArcGIS |Acrobat | InCopy | Illustrator | InDesign, Photoshop | AutoCAD 2016 | LandFX| HandRendering | Lumion| Sketch-Up |Microsoft Office Studio DC | Resumes

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KENDRA HYSON | Selected Works Prince George’s County Arbor Day 2018

The Prince George’s County Beautification committee selects one site each year as its ceremonial Arbor Day site. This event brings out local community members, government officials and other tree enthusiast to plant several trees in honor of Arbor Day.

As the lead designer for this beautification project Kendra worked with the Birchwood City-Clearview Manor community association to propose several native tree species to be planted around the recreation center grounds.

Landscape Design, Tree Selection & Graphic Renderings: Kendra Hyson

ARBOR

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The Birchwood City Community Recreation Center is the site of the official Prince George’s County Arbor Day for 2018. This dedicated and spirited community is located in Oxon Hill, Maryland. A total of 27 native trees will be planted around the recreation center and surrounding open areas. The Southern Magnolia was chosen as this year’s ceremonial tree. This beautiful and stately evergreen tree, highlighted in late spring by large white flowers, represents the resilience and beauty of this dynamic community.

CEREMONIAL TREE Southern Magnolia

The Southern magnolia is a magnificent tree with beautiful year-round foliage that gives way to large, fragrant saucer shaped flowers in late spring. Capable of growing at a moderate rate – the Southern magnolia can grow up to 80 feet within its lifetime.

Eastern Redbud Showy pink-purple flowers bloom in April and May before heart shaped leaves grow. Fruits take the form of flat pods that appear in late summer and often persist through the winter on its zig-zag branches.

This tree is of special value to native bees.

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Northern Red Oak The northern red oak is widely considered a national treasure for its wildlife value and adaptability in harsh urban settings. Deep red leaves give this medium to large tree it the brilliant fall color that make it so popular.

Red Maple Red maple is known for its red twigs, buds, flowers and brilliant red fall color. This tree has a high wildlife value as a source of food and nesting location.

River Birch The species is valued for its relatively rapid growth, tolerance for flooding and some drought, unique curling bark, and spreading limbs. The river birch is a host plant for many species of caterpillars.

Serviceberry

Plant Legend Eastern Redbud QTY: 6

River Birch QTY: 3

Northern Red Oak QTY: 3

Willow Oak QTY: 2

Red Maple QTY: 6

Serviceberry QTY: 6

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This tree is an all-season beauty.

Early in the spring, white clusters of blooms compliment the new green of spring. In the fall, foliage turns bright red and yellow. Plump red berries are a favorite of birds in summer. The berries are also popular with the human crowd for pies, preserves and fresh eating.

Willow Oak

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Willow oak acorns are popular with a variety of wildlife. Its name comes from the slender willow-like leaves that turn yellow to brown in fall.

Willow Oak is the official Prince George’s County tree.

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Rushern L. Baker, III County Executive

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Darrell B. Mobley Director

Adam Ortiz Director

Arbor Day 2018

Arbor Day 2018 Poster

The poster (highlight on the right) functioned as a plan to illustrate the newly proposed trees and served as a way to show the community the work being done in and around their recreation area.

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KENDRA HYSON | Selected Works Carrollton Elementary Outdoor Learning Courtyard Carrolton Elementary School was looking to transform their existing courtyard into an outdoor learning space. As lead designer on this project, Kendra worked with a team of dedicated teachers from the school and the school’s 21st Century summer program to conduct two visioning workshops for the outdoor learning space.

Community Forklift Reuse Art Park

REUSE ARTS PARK BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

MURAL WALL ARTS WALK PATH SCULPTURE PICNIC AREA

WITH DESIGNERS: RICHARD ANTHONY, JULIE MATTHEWS, & DEVON MURTHA

PROPOSED TREES

WOODLAND PATH

GABION WALL FOREST CONSERVATION GABION BENCH SEATING

FLEXIBLE / EVENT SPACE

PLANTING

MEADOW PLANTING

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(PERMEABLE PAVING)

GATEWAY SCULPTURE

GABION WALL SIGNAGE POST

TANGLEW OOD DRIVE

SIGNAGE POST VERTICAL SIGNAGE SCULPTURE

CROSS WALK

The final design aspires to create a BEAUTIFUL, FLEXIBLE and INTERACTIVE space students to explore and engage safely. The design addresses the existing drainage concerns on the site while maintaining the large mature Willow Oak trees that dominate the landscape. Pollinator gardens, rain gardens, mindfulness area and outdoor seating were just a few of the items included in the final design.

Landscape Design, Graphic Renderings, Student Workshops and Community Engagement: Kendra Hyson

RAIN GARDENS (STORMWATER MANAGEMENT)

NEW PARKING LOT

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Landscape Design, Graphic Renderings, Student Workshops and Community Engagement: Kendra Hyson

The above rendering illustrates a proposed new parking lot design for Community Forklift and the first project in the designated Port Towns Eco-District. Currently, the land is owned and managed by M-NCPPC, so close collaboration with Prince George’s County Parks was necessary.

Volunteer designers proposed an extensive design that included a community nature and art walk, rain gardens and permeable parking lot for storm water management and found object sculptures and benches designed by local artist. As Project Coordinator Kendra supervised volunteer designers, organized community events and meetings, as well as assisted with the development of a native plant palette for the proposed rain garden and critical forest areas that included conservation landscaping techniques to preserver local ecologies.

Studio DC | Resumes

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JACKIE SADEGHI

National Environmental Education Curricula Facilitator Maryland State Department of Education – Teacher Certification E: jackie.sadeghi@gmail.com | P: 240.888.6211

EXPERIENCE Environmental Science & Astronomy Teacher

Develop, plan, evaluate, and revise—curricula, course content and course materials and methods of instruction.

Experience in creating inquiry-based experiential lessons aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.

Currently the School Energy & Recycling Team Leader & sponsor of the environmental club. Awarded the Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini-Grant 2017 ($5000) to give students outdoor education experience.

Environmental Science + Career & Technical Education

Developed a completely revised environmental science curriculum with a focus on an interdisciplinary, studentfocused experiential science experience. Awarded the Chesapeake Bay Trust Mini-Grant ($5000) which allowed me to use Washington, D.C. as a living classroom that provided over a dozen science field trips, and a speaker series that emphasized “green jobs”. Applied individualized teaching techniques to meet specific needs and challenges of a diverse population of underserved students with a wide-spectrum of learning disabilities.

Served as an advocate for culturally diverse students and families by meeting with staff, attending meetings (team meetings, IEP, discipline, etc.), tracking student performance, and providing resources inside and outside of the school system.

Student Teacher Johns Hopkins MAT Internship

Worked cooperatively with mentor teacher to plan and coordinate lessons for three sections of honors biology and one section of anatomy & physiology class using an interdisciplinary teaching style. Encouraged a hands-on experiential style which also included outside experts and speakers as collaborators. Co-led and advised students in the environmental club on their community service projects.

Montgomery County Public Schools Present

Young America Works Public Charter School 2009 - 2010

Oaklands Mill High School 2008 - 2009

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Studio DC | Resumes

Education Program Coordinator Casey Trees 2006 - 2008

EDUCATION

Developed and implemented technological-based environmental science curriculum for 10 partner schools to enhance existing science curriculum. Designed, organized and facilitated teacher and volunteer training courses and workshops. Supervised summer internship program: recruited and interviewed interns; coordinated college and job readiness program; worked with students to develop organizational, time management and effective study skills. Created marketing campaigns and outreach activities to increase school partnerships.

Built and maintained relationships between various stakeholders such as school district, administrators, affiliate organizations, volunteers and students.

Master of Arts in Teaching | Concentration Secondary Science Johns Hopkins University

Bachelor of Science | Biology University of Navada

AMERICORPS WORK

National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) Program Conservation Assistant 2002 - 2003

Nevada Conservation Corps Service Learning Coordinator 1999 - 2000

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

“Using technology in delivering and enhancing Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences” Chesapeake Bay Summit 2007

“GreenTech: Students Using GIS to Map, Plan and Take Action!”

North American Association for Environmental Education 2007 Studio DC | Resumes

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STUDIO DC

Graphic Work Plan Science and history have proven time and again that it is possible to create cultural shifts that lead to systematic change.

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AWARENESS

EDUCATION

The first step in this process is to raise awareness about the issue. The Studio DC project will help to raise awareness about three targeted watersheds, stormwater runoff, and design solutions by engaging 10 talented high school students in a Saturday only program that fuels their creativity.

Studio DC will educate students in design thinking techniques surrounding stormwater issues in their own community. This program will transform how these students think and solve problems, students will become more connected to their watershed and communities.

DESIGN

IMPLEMENTATION

Studio DC believes that design is a form of artistic expression with a utilitarian purpose. Students will create a design project, that will be informative and illustrative. Their designs will help to create public discourse about watersheds and how they can be improved. Students share their new knowledge with their families and communities, thus amplifying the impact of their individual projects.

Students will then share their projects and experiences on social media to both promote their individual success and help to create a ripple effect by transferring their knowledge to the people in their peer group. As a result, our Studio DC project will function like a public awareness campaign energized by the exposure to the networks of these excellent organizations.

Studio DC | Graphic Work Plan

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Graphic Work Plan The following chart highlights the proposed Studio DC work plan beginning at the time the grants are scheduled to be awarded.

Community Stormwater Solutions Grant Period

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Program Promotion Additional Partnership Development Call For Applications

Deadline July 15th

Program Preparation + Logistics Application Review Student Selection Program Facilitation Final Student Symposium Awareness Campaign Grant Reporting

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STUDIO DC Target Areas

The Studio DC project aspires to use the city as a studio and will occur in a variety of locations with a focus on Hickey Run, Nash Run, and Watts Branch sub-watersheds. Studio DC will also take place on Kingman and Heritage Islands and in other locations across the city. We will hold sessions at Howard University, the National Building Museum, IDEA PCS, SmithGroup and other locations. The projects target audiences are:

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Kingman Island Plan Rendering

National Arboretum

District Residents - Particularly those associated with three targeted watersheds: Nash Run, Watts Branch and Hickey Run and other organizations and businesses in those watersheds. This project is focused on teaching design thinking to 16+ year old high schools’ students so they can learn to design for stormwater solutions. By exploring the issues in their own watershed, and creating their own stormwater design project, they will gain a deep understanding of watersheds and watershed restoration initiatives, the design process, and have an invested interest in sharing what they have learned.

District government - The students of Studio DC that we hope to engage are also representative of the residents that have been left out of the formal community planning process. The Studio DC project will demonstrate a creative way for the District community engagement. If awarded the grant, the program will reach out to DCOP, DDOT, the Ward 5 and Ward 7 Council members and other high profile officials to share our work and begin a dialog about partnership opportunities.

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Allied Design Professionals - To create a community of support for the students in the program and to raise awareness about DC watersheds in particular.

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CSS Ward 7 Ward 5 Target Watersheds Community Assets High Schools - Public High Schools - Charter

The Studio DC program wants to specifically target DC public and charter high schools in the located in Wards 5 and 7 near or adjacent to the targeted watershed areas.

The following map highlights some community assets, schools and DOEE target watersheds.

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“WE DO NOT CREATE THE WORK. I BELIEVE WE, IN FACT, ARE DISCOVERERS.” - Glenn Murcutt Architect

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