YMCA of South Palm Beach County

For the physical project of my Capstone I will be working with the Art Summer Camp program the YMCA of Boca Raton county offers.  With that in mind I thought it would be nice to share a little more information about the Y and this facility in particular. 

I cam in contact with this Y by chance when I was apartment shopping here in Boca Raton FL.  I am also a fitness instructor and was looking for a gym to call my new home in our new city, and as luck would have it they were in need of a Spin instructor.  From then on the rest is history as they say in terms of my life at the Y where I now feel like a real family member of the staff.  I can be seen everywhere from at the front desk welcoming long time members and new faces alike, in the group exercise pool shaking and cheering away my Zumba classes, yelling and sweating with Spin, and also poolside where we are heating things up with Aqua Zumba.  I love being part of this great community and excited to share a little more about it with all of you...

The Peter Blum YMCA of Boca Raton was originally founded in 1972 and has recently undergone several renovations and expansions giving the facility some of the nicest amenities from the Fitness Center floor to the two heated pools.  According the the YMCA website, "the newly renovated and expanded facility includes a full-size, 7,200-square-foot gymnasium, a second indoor pool, a new 7,000-square-foot fitness center, two new preschool classrooms, boys’ and girls’ locker rooms, a computer room, library, multipurpose room, and an expanded lobby area with cafe." 

With all that going on where you might ask will My project be able to make a difference?  The interior of the Y has a long main hallway that leads to the varying fitness classes, locker rooms, preschool, as well as the summer camp.  It is in this primary space that the final work will be installed designed to inspire everyone that passes to do their part to protect our natural wonders.  The children I will be working with will also have the awesome sense of achievement from being part of this collaborative project and want to show their families and friends what they created.  I want the children to feel free to design their own sea creatures that may inhabit the oceans around us thus populating a colorful and fantastic sea.  To bring the environmental message of recycling and pollution reduction the sea will then be polluted with black and gray pieces of trash that are unfortunately being thrown into the oceans today. 

I want to educate, inspire, and encourage these children to act on behalf of the environment, and I want to know that they were able to learn these valuable lessons through art...