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 Update May 13, 2005 Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction We are fast approaching the end of the school year! Students: • On Wednesday, Ms. Shoafís English classes walked to the Belasco Theater to see Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. For most, this was the first experience at a Broadway performance. They loved it. Thank you to Rebekah Shoaf for organizing the trip and the fundraisers to pay for it. • Parsons School of Design has graciously earmarked spots for five of our students in their Summer Pre-College Academy, a two-week program on Parsonís campus. And, they provided scholarships. Anne Gaines, Charlotte Rice and Nadine Bourgeois from Parsons have truly shaped this partnership, and the opportunities they have arranged are invaluable. • We are also very excited for one ninth grader, Cielo Villa, who will work as an intern at Daniel Frankfurt, PC this summer. Thank you to Suzanna Schroeder and Joe McGough from DFPC for offering the internship. • Our after school trips continue. Nate Huyler at STV, Inc. equipped ten of our kids with hard hats and led them through the Ninth Precinct building in the East Village, which is currently under renovation. Please see attached photo. And, last week, Parsons allowed us to sit in on the end-of-year critiques for their seniors. UASDC student observation: "Our critiques are more fun because our architects are nicer." Perhaps we've been too easy on them! Faculty: • Both of our English teachers are leading their classes through ambitious drama units. Ariel Nadelsternís classes are reading A Raisin in the Sun and will perform vignettes in a "Readersí Theater." Thanks to her efforts, she has brought City Collegeís drama department on board, and we will use City Collegeís theater for the performance. Rebekahís classes will act out scenes from Romeo & Juliet. Set design began this Saturday with our excellent set design consultant, Illya Azaroff. The performance date is June 17, at 1:00 and 6:00 p.m. on the roof of Park West. Keep an eye out for students-designed invitations. • Scott Thomas, our physics teacher, will end the year with a bridge construction unit, tying together the bridge designs that the students created in Design Seminar in January but bringing it up another level by teaching about tresses, compression, tension, and all of the other things that make bridges work. • And, all of our teachers continue to explore the city with their advisees. Recent trips include the Brooklyn Museum of Art for the Basquiat exhibit, two site tours of Turner Constructionís projects (thanks to Stephanie Ansari at Turner for organizing), the mosque on East 96th Street, and the George Washington bridge. Our teachersí efforts are incredible. And, paying off: Ariel's advisory ran into Donald Trump on a recent walking tour to midtown. Themes: • Gita Nandan and Elliott Maltby, our architects-in-residence, test our kidsí presentation and critiquing skills in every design seminar unit. Yesterday was the critique for one advisory. Thank you also to Nate Huyler from STV, Inc. and Earl Jackson and Kristopher Takacs from SOM for serving as critics this semester. • Gita and Elliott also organized an impressive Earth Day Teach-In during Earth Week to introduce our students to the concepts of sustainable design. • Thank you to Lou Mendes from HAKS Engineers for speaking to an advisory about his efforts to clean up the World Trade Center site. • Lastly, our partnership with the Center for Architecture and the AIA-NY thrives. They hosted a Family Design Day for us, when about twenty kids and parents assembled at the Center on a Saturday to build model sets for scenes from Romeo & Juliet. On Monday, the students' work from the Subway Design project in March will be on display at the Center. Lawrence and I are grateful for those of you who are meeting with us this spring regarding partnerships for the years ahead. From reading the updates, you catch a glimpse of what partnerships mean to the school. The face-to-face interaction and programs with partners make UASDC unique and are a great source of pride for the students. Thanks for reading! Genna Weinstein
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