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High School Civics students Local Scouts group Youth Engagement Team The Pioneer Project youth engagement plan has launched and is on track to be completed by the week of Thanksgiving. The project includes three five-ten minute videos (What is a community park / What is Pioneer Park?, What do cool parks look like?, and Final wrap-up) delivered in English with both English and Spanish captions. One visual survey (What do you like to do in a park? / What do you do at Pioneer Park?) available in English and Spanish. Lastly, an artwork component centered on “What is your dream Pioneer Park?” The analysis will center on the results of the visual survey and overarching themes visible in collected artwork; all participating students have been invited to the City Council meeting on Wednesday, December 16 to hear the results of the project and learn how their ideas and artwork have influenced the park planning process. As of October 29, the project involves Little Canada Elementary, Saint John’s of Little Canada Catholic School, and AFSA Charter School. Of particular note, the AFSA project will be tied to a classroom unit on government and will include a virtual visit from Corrin Wendell, Little Canada Community Development Director/Planner, who will be speaking about civic engagement and her role in Little Canada local government and youth planning. Given the unpredictability of distance learning, I anticipate that this project will reach 150-200 K-6 public and private students across the Little Canada community and result in the collection of 100 pieces of artwork. A landing page has been created on the City website at www.littlecanadamn.org/PioneerPark and is ready to go live. Once the Community Survey is live, the link will be shared with the Commission. At this time, the Fellows will be at the December meeting to share their preliminary findings. Poster Example