Our community based experiential learning project (CBEL) involves designing and building of a wardrobe closet for the storage of dress-up clothes for the City Reach Care Society. This project has been changed from the original plan of a sandbox at request of the client, Dave McManus. The details of the project are unsure as the client is still trying to figure the new design after the change from the sandbox. This gives an opportunity to have a larger leadership role in the design process, as things are very tentative. Our group is very excited about the project and look forward to working together with our client.

The group that will be working on this project are all second year Civil Engineering students at UBC.  Our mentor is Andrew Chutskoff.

From left to right:

Matt Kolec (Leader/Organizer)
Matt Van Goor (Document Manager)
Angelica Wong (Secretary)
Gerald Epp (Client Liaison)
Geoff Krahn (Blogger)
Daniel Sohn (Mentor Liaison) – not shown

Our client is CityReach Care Society (http://www.cityreach.org/), based in East Vancouver. Among other community activities, CityReach runs a Food Bank, Food Kitchen, and an Out of School Care program. Their vision is to “help families and individuals in our community prosper in all areas of life.”

Our project is for their Out of School Care program that supports children (ages 5 to 12). Through day camps and weekly clubs at City Reach’s Warehouse facility, the kids are encouraged to cultivate life skills and talents and to mature as individuals.

We look forward to meeting with our client in the coming week. We will be able to work together with him in order to develop a more concrete plan for the project.