Sentences with phrase «community design effort»

In contrast to a single individual or family donating a box of cans, Canstruction is a community design effort that engages architects, engineers, students and the public in an altruistic and imaginative event.

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The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

Although Qlik's content centers around its products, the company receives high marks for its community building efforts and its clean, intuitive design.

Bitcoin was designed to be a decentralized peer - to - peer monetary system, where community members gave their own computer processing powers to verify and create new blocks and mine new Bitcoin, and as a reward received Bitcoin proportional to their efforts.

«The Innovation District in downtown Las Vegas was designed to be a proving ground for new technologies, and this latest interest by NTT Group and Dell Technologies will continue our efforts to become a smart and connected community,» said Michael Lee Sherwood, Director of Information Technologies, City of Las Vegas.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

Among these are the chain's iconic brand logo, its eye - catching, streamlined design, a brand positioning designed to capitalize on its family - friendly appeal while retaining its longstanding sports fan base, a regularly refreshed menu and ongoing series of limited - time offers, a commitment to featuring the most popular beer brands as well as select craft brews at the bar, familiarity among visitors to Rehoboth Beach, Del., and Ocean City, Md., and ongoing youth sports sponsorships, fundraising activities program and other community outreach efforts.

«Parks looks forward to furthering the work we are doing with EDC, CDOT and the community to realize the City's efforts to connecting communities and creating scenic destinations by designing a seamless greenway along the East River,» NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP.

When she and Trentlyon heard about efforts to develop the Hudson River Park, which now stretches from 59th Street to Battery Park, Corrigan said they wanted to make sure Chelsea had something special designed for its own community.

The campaign is designed to start a community conversation to educate the public on the real facts surrounding mental illness and give those who suffer a voice in an effort to reduce or eliminate stigma in Erie County.

HEROES is designed to enhance schoolwide wellness through changes in physical education, nutrition, health promotion efforts for school staff and family, and community involvement.

During the past two presidential campaigns, efforts were made by the science and engineering communities to engage candidates in a «user - friendly» science policy conversation not designed to be a debate (questions were to be provided in advance and «contentious» issues were off limits).

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

Schulze praises the effort San Francisco's design community dedicates to the program, particularly in terms of offering mentorships.

When the instructional design team, for example, identified a need for a database of parent and community resources that could be used by students and teachers, they asked the community team to assist with the effort.

The changes have prompted Grofar, the popular careers guidance management solution, to develop a specially designed platform to help schools reach out to their local communities and bolster their fundraising efforts and access valuable services.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

With an eye toward sustainability, the state has proposed that all Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools create a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to help design and implement school improvement efforts.

The sample materials in the Dashboard Communications Toolkit are designed to support districts and schools with community engagement efforts.

They designed districtwide in - service programs for principals, focused specifically on new curriculum initiatives (e.g., revision of the elementary mathematics program) or school - improvement initiatives (e.g., developing a professional learning communities effort, extending to all schools).

Efforts are based on best practices and Umoja Community established philosophy and approach, as well as applying data collection and analysis to all instructional design projects.

It provides a comprehensive framework to help communities design local dropout prevention efforts as well as 16 downloadable tools that communities can use immediately.

The information in these synthesis reports was collected from practicing administrators and teachers in reentry programs nationwide, and is designed to assist state departments of education, school districts, and community - based organizations interested in redesigning or initiating efforts to help youth with disabilities return to the education system and become successful school completers.

These objectives are designed to be interlocking efforts that connect opportunities for students, families, and members of the community to create a robust educational experience for children in kindergarten through twelfth grade in Milwaukee Public Schools.

FOSTERING NEW COMMUNITY - DESIGNED SCHOOLS: Our School Design Lab supports efforts across Oakland to grow innovative and proven educational models and cultivate transformative leaders for our communityCOMMUNITY - DESIGNED SCHOOLS: Our School Design Lab supports efforts across Oakland to grow innovative and proven educational models and cultivate transformative leaders for our communitycommunity schools.

These grants are designed to advance the capacity of partner organizations across the state to become leading voices in education advocacy efforts, especially on behalf of communities and students of color.

But even with those efforts, and following the debut of the resulting design, the district made a decision to again go into the community in a series of meetings entitled, «Come listen, learn, and let us know...» This told the community that their thoughts mattered; they were sharing in shaping the future of the school.

During the school year, Future Corps students lead their peers through the college application process, train faculty and students on the latest mobile college app technologies, and organize, design and conduct three peer - to - peer campaigns focused on college applications, FAFSA completion efforts and a «Big Idea» movement addressing a pressing community need.

Unlike other big cities, Cincinnati has the advantage of having designed or redesigned its schools with community schools in mind, beginning more than a decade ago, when it embarked on a $ 1 billion effort to renovate its schools.

The Community Schools Evaluation Toolkit is designed to help community schools evaluate their efforts so that they learn from their successes, identify current challenges, and plan future efforts accCommunity Schools Evaluation Toolkit is designed to help community schools evaluate their efforts so that they learn from their successes, identify current challenges, and plan future efforts acccommunity schools evaluate their efforts so that they learn from their successes, identify current challenges, and plan future efforts accordingly.

The Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support (SAILS) program, known as TN SAILS, began as a collaborative effort between a single community college and the local high school, designed to increase the number of students who are college ready in mathematics so that they can enter directly into credit - bearing postsecondary coursework.

The California Department of Education (CDE) released a communications toolkit on the California School Dashboard Report featuring links to customizable materials designed to support districts and schools with their community engagement efforts.

To help support your school community in this effort, we are providing suggested activities (see pages 3 and 4) that can be done anywhere on your school grounds and are designed to follow BPS policies and guidelines.

These grants are designed to advance the capacity of our partner organizations across Tennessee to become leading voices in education advocacy efforts, especially on behalf of communities and students of color.

We encouraged the community to applaud Amazon's accessibility efforts and to support the initiative through any means possible, including purchasing Kindle units and providing constructive feedback to the design team.

The Gathering, a year - long tourism extravaganza of events, festivals and programs designed to bring record numbers of visitors to Ireland, is being planned through a coordinated effort of the Irish government, local communities, private businesses, clubs and other organizations.

The clinic was a family effort and labor of love from its inception; Dr. Ann, her husband Greg, and her sister Debbie, worked together to plan, design and build our facility with the same attention to detail and dedication to excellence that continues in our commitment to compassionate, comprehensive and high - quality healthcare for the pets in our community.

The thematical setting of trying to stop an ISIS land invasion of the EU is an obviously transparent marketing strategy designed to appeal to a certain audience within the gaming community, and perhaps also to additionally garner hyperbolic headlines from the more reactionary members of the gaming press in an effort to get free publicity.

A global effort designed to influence, affect and involve creative communities in the development of a world standard for inspiration, particularly in the fields of advertising, design and film.

The Bus Stand, designed by artist Victoria Palermo, is a public artwork and permanent addition to the North Adams community, adding to the movement to bring more public art to the city through the efforts of DownStreet Art.

It's fitting that disrupting / Undoing, an exhibition and salon hosted by OCAD University's Inclusive Design Institute was held at the Open Gallery — the week of art and events held April 2 - 5 was collaborative effort that brought together a wide variety of artists working in different genres from across the OCAD U community.

Loveridge's presentation, delivered in January, took a deep dive into the failures of the efforts of the World Bank and the Ford Foundation to create, from the bottom up, entire agriculturally - focused communities along the Pakistan border designed to, «look like the West.»

Dallas - based architect Brent Brown, AIA, has focused his efforts on bringing «design thinking» to all communities.

Tech start - up Collactive has thrown its hat into the rough - and - tumble world of social networking applications, and one of its first offerings, the Worldcoolers desktop, is designed to give people concerned about the climate crisis the means to connect with one another, organize their efforts, and reach out to the larger community.

This effort includes community consensus building, designing and building temporary infrastructure to encourage walking and cycling, and documenting their impacts on how residents move in their communities.

At least it was successful for us, for at it we realized that there was a clear need, one widely perceived within the NGO community, for a new kind of GDRs study, one designed to cast as much light as possible on the effort - sharing debate as we now know it.

Similarly, a new wave of conservation initiatives encompass transdisciplinary efforts to address the intersection between conservation and well - being and in doing so promote integrated frameworks, such as socio - ecological systems paradigms, and participatory and community - based research designs.

From Our Perspective While William McDonough + Partners, the architecture and community design firm, does not have a formal relationship with the Institute, we are delighted about this newest member of the Cradle to Cradle family and we look forward to the results of their efforts and those widening impacts on industry, including the building and building products industries.

The contest was designed to recognize the efforts of government, communities, and the private sector in Latin American cities to develop initiatives that promote healthier lifestyles.

That effort merits a story in itself but what makes it even more noteworthy is that the people of Greensburg, Kansas have chosen to move from ordinary to extraordinary... Imagine a community for 1500 people designed as a state of the art working model for green building and energy, hybrid design efficiency and genuine intelligent design.