Easton Community Garden
The Easton Community Garden Renovations are for the purpose of creating a creative and easily assessable garden. The team ordered stones for the stone pathway into and around the garden: creating more accessible and wheelchair-friendly paths. Our team is currently designing accessible garden bed tables.
Our team’s goal for the end of the year is to have a semi-completed build or at least one table built and put into operation. Once the stones that we ordered arrive, we will also begin installing them as imagined.
Gracedale Nursing Home Dementia Board
Our team’s objective for our project for Gracedale Nursing Home is to design and fabricate four different dementia boards that will be used by patients at their facility. Our team has created 3D models for what ought to be the dementia boards that match the nursing home’s needs. Currently, the team is finalizing the designs, material list, and budget.
The goal is to have everything set for building and delivering the project by the end of the first month of the fall of the 2023 semester.
Pocket Skate Parks
Our team’s goal for the Pocket Skate Park team is to create harmonious, mixed-use/dual-purpose spaces that encourage skating. In August 2022, our team attended West Ward’s National Night Out, which is an annual block party hosted by the West Ward Community Initiative, full of field games, activities, music, community tents, and a cookout.
Our team has come up with many draft designs of skate structures including multi-pieced designs that puzzle together. Our team plans to continue to collaborate with Push Ahead, a skateboarding program in Lehigh Valley, to implement our skateable designs into both permanent locations, such as the Karl Stirner Arts Trail, and temporary locations using our portable designs.
Robotics Advising
The Easton Area High School Robo Rovers are a group of extremely capable and dedicated students who build a new robot every year to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The EWB Robotics Advising Group meets with the students once per week at the high school, where we help with anything they need, from writing sponsor-outreach letters to helping them program an autonomous PID-controlled auto-balancing routine.
Micro Food Pantries
The Micro Food Pantry Project team has installed their first micro pantry!
You can find this pantry outside of Cornerstone Church on 2nd St in Easton. The Church, which has an established soup kitchen, will utilize the pantry daily.
Much of Easton is a food desert, meaning it is difficult for many people to find healthy yet affordable foods. The goal of this project is to build micro pantries where people who need access will gain easy access.
The team will continue to maintain the current structure and analyze the flagship pantry as a possible model for future installments throughout our city of Easton. The volunteers at the Church have been very appreciative and collaborative with our team.