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4 Kerry Schulte, a 2nd grade teacher at AFSA, and Kristin VanSickle , a 5th grade teacher at SJ. Both instructors modified the project for their classes by tailoring the art component and adjusting to their school’s instructional format (hybrid in the case of Ms. Schulte, all in-person in the case of Ms. VanSickle) and course calendar. Additionally, Ms. Schulte chose to incorporate this project into her class’ unit on government, and Corrin Wendell, Little Canada Director of Community Development & Planning, was able to kick-off the project in a virtual conversation about local government and the importance of contributing to your community. At the end of the project, students, parents, and administrators received a project debrief letter (for AFSA and SJ families) or dual-language school newsletter post (for LCE families) that shared early project findings and invited them to attend the City Council workshop on December 16 to learn how the student feedback collected would be used in the Pioneer Park planning process. The debrief also encouraged adults and older children to complete the public survey created by the RCP Fellows survey team to share their own thoughts on the future of Pioneer Park. In the end, this youth engagement project was disseminated to 583 K-6 students at LCE, 19 2nd grade students at AFSA, and 16 5th grade students at SJ, for a total of 618 K-6 students across three schools in the Little Canada community. The remaining sections detail some of the early findings collected from the project’s visual survey; artwork results and themes will be presented with examples during next week’s workshop. Visual Survey After completing the first project video on community parks, students were invited to complete a 5-9 question survey disseminated via Google Forms. The survey was broken into two sections: general community park interests and Pioneer Park feedback. At the end of the first section, students were asked to identify if they had ever been to Pioneer Park by answering Yes, No, or I don’t know. Those who answered Yes moved on to answer an additional four questions specific to Pioneer Park for a total of nine questions; those who answered No or I don’t know were stopped at five questions total. It is important to note that of the 324 students who completed a survey, less than half of K-6 students (48%) confirmed that they had visited Pioneer Park before. The first survey section collected student grades and location and asked two general park questions: “What do you like to do in a community park?” and “What would make you excited about a community park?” Due to variations in student writing and reading abilities across grades, each answer option was accompanied by a visual, such as a cartoon of sports balls or a photograph of a playset. Students were permitted to select as many options as they wanted per question; 324 students responded to the first question and 313 students to the second. The results can be seen in the charts below.