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This is one way the students insert themselves into the public conversation on the crucial issues facing their communities.
We speak with two community members who have lived next to the lot for the past 15 years.
We interviewed Glen Dake of DakeLuna Consultants to get an expert opinion on how to turn a vacant lot into a dog park.
At the end of January we had the great opportunity to help the students of the Los Angeles River School prepare for the Placemaking Design Competition.
Our number one focus is to help the El Monte community by building a dog park. Now it doesn't sound like much but it takes quite a bit of doing.
For our outreach effort, we created a survey that included 5 questions, and passed it out to juniors and seniors.
Our team passed out postcards that asked, "What do you want to see at the first dog park in El Monte?" and "Could this be the site of El Monte's first dog park?"
In this Youth Voices installment follow the narrative journey of high school students from the Los Angeles River School located in North East Los Angeles.
It makes our community look bad.
The issue that concerns me about the river is the amount of trash. It looks bad just laying around and this could make us look bad.
It's important to be able to convey ideas clearly, both in person and in your correspondence. As difficult as this may be it's a skill that is worth mastering.
The empty lots around the neighborhood can be made into something that will benefit the teens at Sotomayor Learning Academies.