Maclellan planning- By Sarah F.

The last two weeks in our River Fellows time block we have discussed what we could do to better our community, specifically Audubon Island (Maclellan Island). In doing so we looked at what needed to be done. The area has not been mapped recently and the signs are out-dated, so we decided to first focus on the signs. The ones on Audubon Island at the moment are quite old and don’t contain the all the information needed. They are made of wood and they have information about the island painted on them. Because they are painted, a lot of the information has chipped away or is faded.

In our first meeting during this two-week period we discussed what needed to be on the signs, how many were needed, and what material we would need. The latter was more difficult to decide on. We didn’t want to use wood, fearing it would rot away. Also we wanted to use the GPS Library’s laser cutter to carve out the information on the signs, so we also needed to have a material that the laser could cut through. We at first thought about having them made of sheet metal, but than during out second meet Mr. Glass came in and discussed the matter with us. He told us how neat it would be to use Plexiglas. We all agreed that this would look very unique and that the main sign for the island should be made out of Plexiglas. We also needed a few more smaller signs around this one welcome sign so it was decided that we could use a sturdy wood to create the smaller signs. The class of 2020 River Fellows are very excited to take Audubon Island on as our new project!
*update- the plexiglass will not work due to the current ventilation set-up, so we are going to try tile.