New Youth Center?

The tribal newspaper recently reported that the site of the old Tiospa Zina Tribal School would become a new tribal youth center. We decided we'd help. We are going to make a proposal to give to the Council. It will have ideas and suggestions from many different people in it. We have to get it done before the end of school! Here is what we did so far:


First, we used Pinterest and the internet to look at many youth centers around the world. We looked at the design. We looked at the interior and exterior. We also talked about youth centers we ourselves had been to. We made lots of lists of ideas on the board.

Next, we created a survey. It is for youth and kids and parents to tell us what kind of things they want at the new youth center. Here is the link if you want to take the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/0XazDsF2xGZkgllJ2 

We can peek at the results but the public cannot. It is anonymous. So far, in just one day, we got 30 responses. There are a lot of questions. Until the survey is done, the information we have is preliminary. That means we cannot really use it yet. We will use it to make suggestions in our proposal. We will make some graphs and charts and put them on our website here, also.

Today, we measured the "footprint" of the old TZ building. We will use the measurements to make several floor plans for our proposal for the new youth center.

We also measured the "green space" around the foundation.

We used three different ways to measure: a 25 foot tape measure, a 100 foot rope, and a tool that you roll to get a more precise measurement. Each team measured with all three methods.

Measuring in a straight line is important.

We had to work carefully at the job site. We got permission from the Tribal Administration before we went to do the measuring.

We had to work around obstacles!

The different ways of measuring gave us some different measurements. We took careful notes. We talked about why some methods (rope) were not as exact as other methods.


Then we walked back to school. We decided on a scale of 1 inch = 10 feet for our floor plans. We made the "footprint" on paper. 




Tomorrow we will start to work on the floor plans. The floor plans will be in scale, like a blueprint. Architects and engineers make detailed blueprints. Ours will need to be a little more simple.  But, it will be good enough to put in our proposal!