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Kairos Shen, BRA Director of Planning
Ted Landsmark, BAC President
Tom Sieniewicz, Principal, CHAN KRIEGER SIENIEWICZ
Governor Michael Dukakis

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Orange Line Design!
- An Ideas Competition for Middle Schoolers-

To learn about the  elements of this competition join us on:

September 6
6 p.m.
308 Congress Street, 5th Floor
(above the Children's Museum)


What is Orange Line Design?

Orange Line Design is an architecture and public space ideas competition that asks Citizen Designer teams of teachers and students to re-envision an MBTA Orange Line Station. 

The projects will be presented to a panel of distinguished judges in December at Piper Auditorum at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.


Teams will focus on either Jackson Square Station in Jamaica Plain/Roxbury, or Sullivan Square Station in Charlestown/Somerville; at both sites teams will be asked to submit concepts for a new design of the station headhouse and the public space around it.

To learn more about the competition, join us for our introductory session on September 6th at Citizen Schools headquarters.


Over 20 local area designers and architect firms have already signed up and we hope to see a representative from YOUR firm.

Let us know if you are planning to attend by emailing ullirobinson@citizenschools.org.

 
Citizen Schools a leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by teaching skill-building apprenticeships after-school.  Our programs blend these real-world learning projects with rigorous academic and leadership development activities, preparing students in the middle grades for success in high school, college, the workforce, and civic life.

Launched in Boston in 1995, Citizen Schools currently serves 3,000 students and engages 2,400 volunteers in 15 cities nationwide.

 Learn more about our programs, our results, our plans to advance the after-school field, and how to get involved at www.citizenschools.org

What's an apprenticeship?
 Citizen Schools recruits Citizen Teachers from businesses, civic institutions and communities, and trains them to teach what they know best – their own professional or life experience. Taught in 90-minute sessions twice a week for 10 weeks, these hands-on learning projects emphasize the broad set of skills necessary for success in the modern economy – leadership, teamwork, oral communication and technology – and raise students' aspirations for their futures. Each apprenticeship culminates in a WOW!, a product, performance, or presentation produced by the students and taught back to the community.