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January 8, 2020
APA Ambassador Inspires Preschool Envelope City
Ambassador Megan Mullen Booth brought planning to a Utah preschool with a paper envelope city activity. -
August 26, 2019
STEAM Initiative Welcomes APA Ambassador's Planning Activity
APA Ambassador Sheldon S. Ah Sing, AICP, helped California students answer the question: "What is a city?" -
November 26, 2018
APA Interest Group Incorporates Public Schools into Community Planning
The APA Public Schools Interest Group looks to improve equity by creating stronger linkages between the planning profession and public school districts. -
November 20, 2018
APA Ambassador Leads Florida Students in Mock Council Meeting for Planning Month
APA Ambassador Kim Glas-Castro, AICP, celebrated National Community Planning Month with a mock council meeting at Palm Springs Middle School in Florida. -
October 8, 2018
APA Ambassadors Use “The Lorax” to Teach Planning Lessons to Youth
APA Ambassadors Diana Wilson, AICP, and Lisa Lattu, AICP, excite kids about the importance of the planning profession and trees using Dr. Seuss's book "The Lorax." -
August 14, 2018
APA Ambassador Highlights Planning on Palm Springs Career Day
APA Ambassador Kimberly Glas-Castro, AICP, excites students about planning as a career choice. -
July 17, 2018
APA Ambassador Brings Children’s Workshop to Life in Texas
APA Ambassador Diana Wilson, AICP, partnered with Texas A&M University to engage youth and their parents in planning process. -
June 18, 2018
APA Ambassador Turns Students into Map Makers in Polk City, Florida
APA Ambassador Leny Huaman builds off the APA Florida Chapter’s Kindergarten to 2nd Grade Guidebook to teach elementary students about creating plans for their city. -
May 21, 2018
APA Ambassadors Empower Middle School Girls Through Crafting
APA Ambassador Shawna Kitzman, AICP, and her team from Fitzgerald, build off the Girls Are Brave program to teach middle school girls about the power planning and zoning plays to improve communities. -
March 22, 2018
APA Ambassador Gives San Francisco Youth a Fresh Look at the City
APA Ambassador Deland Chan, AICP, designed a workshop for youth in San Francisco’s Chinatown to learn how to collect and synthesize data about their urban environment. -
March 5, 2018
APA Ambassadors Bring “Kidtropolis” to Iowa Classroom
APA Ambassadors used exercises from the “Metropolis” curriculum developed by John Martoni to help kids envision what a “kid-friendly” and “green” city means to them. -
January 22, 2018
APA Ambassador and Sanger Residents Plan for Healthy, Active Lifestyles
APA Ambassador Keith Woodcock and residents of Sanger, California — part of a family network called Champions for Change — met to discuss ways to incorporate healthy, safe, and nutritious lifestyles into the Sanger General Plan. -
January 9, 2018
"Park for All" Playground Brings Together APA Ambassador and Texas Students
Ambassador Diana Wilson visited a 7th grade elementary classroom in La Grange, Texas, to hear from students about a new playground and talk about health and fitness. -
November 7, 2017
APA Ambassadors Give Students Sky-High View of Planning
APA Ambassadors recount their experience with students at the Research Triangle Park STEM Expo in North Carolina, engaging students with aerial imagery of planning trends from around the world. -
October 31, 2017
Students Shape a City at Summer Planning Camp
Recent University of Washington grad Stephanie Velasco shares her experience working as a camp instructor for "Next City," a planning summer camp offered by the university's Robinson Center for Young Scholars. -
October 17, 2017
APA Ambassadors Introduce Youth to Planning on Atlanta’s Westside
In August 2017, Atlanta-based planners from APD Urban Planning and Management visited the Mattie Freeland Home to host an Ambassador workshop that focused on community agency in planning processes. -
October 9, 2017
APA Ambassador Makes Water Facts Fun in La Grange, Texas
APA Ambassador Diana Wilson made learning fun with water games at the LaGrange County Library's Amazing Water story hour in LaGrange, Texas. -
August 22, 2017
APA Ambassador and Teen Girls Celebrate Octavia Butler
APA Ambassador Daphne Lundi hosted a workshop in collaboration with the Brooklyn-based Octavia Project, which builds on girls' love for science fiction and fantasy to teach skills in STEM and community building. -
July 17, 2017
Transportation Planning Goes for a Ride in Cambridge, Massachusetts
APA Ambassadors Katie Lamoureux and Rachel Strauss McBrien lead students in transportation planning activities. -
June 28, 2017
APA Ambassador Tells the Planning Story With Box City Denver
APA Ambassador Jason Morrison leads youth and volunteers in the creation of a life-sized Box City display in Denver, Colorado. -
December 9, 2016
APA Ambassador Visits SAM Academy Students
APA Ambassador Keith Woodcock, AICP CEP, recalls a Halloween well spent with students at the SAM Academy haunted house. -
November 11, 2016
APA Ambassador Helps Washington State Students Affect Local Planning
APA Ambassador Dee Caputo, AICP, tells how she and Travis Goddard collaborated to teach students basic land use concepts through an interesting classroom activity and guided discussion. -
October 25, 2016
APA Ambassador Gives Central Florida Students a Taste of Transportation Planning
APA Ambassador Shundreka Givan, AICP partnered with the YMCA Teen Achievers program to reach high school students in Central Florida to raise awareness of the value of the planning profession and its impact on local communities. -
September 30, 2016
YMCA Leader’s Club Learns About Zoning with APA Ambassador in Chicago
APA Ambassador Kim Porter, AICP, works to promote planning at the Teen Leaders Club at the YMCA in Irving Park, Chicago. -
August 26, 2016
Enlightening Students Through the Built Environment: Active Transportation
The Built Environment Education Program (BEEP) in San Diego, led by Benjamin Martinez, educates its students on how street design and active transportation shape their communities. -
August 18, 2016
Y-PLAN Expands Youth Outreach Through Professional Networks
Y-PLAN is an educational methodology designed to challenge the status quo by inviting children and young people to participate alongside professionals. -
August 15, 2016
One Member’s Story: Skating into the Future
APA Ambassador Debbie Love, AICP, helps local Florida youth advocate for their vision of a community skateboard park. -
August 10, 2016
Teens Help Bring 1911 Planning Manual into the 21st Century
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is reinventing the 1911 Wacker’s Manual urban planning treatise as a graphic novel intended to inspire young people to become engaged as stewards of Chicago. -
July 26, 2016
The APA Ambassador Team Builds Bridges in Kindergarten
A visit by APA Ambassadors Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. to kindergarteners at the Capitol Region Education Council (CREC) Museum Academy in Connecticut. -
July 25, 2016
Box Cities and Out-of-the-Box Lessons from CUBE
The Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE) provides unique and innovative resources to teach children and adults about the value of engaged citizenry. -
July 13, 2016
Fostering Young Planners in Texas with Scholarships and Art
Amy Wasielewski from North Central Texas Council of Governments talks about three programs that are engaging Arlington's youth in planning. -
July 8, 2016
Kids Get the Planning Picture with APA Ambassador in Alaska
APA Ambassador activity by Anthony Grande, AICP, teaching Alaska 5th and 6th graders about the planning process. -
June 23, 2016
Girls Rock Science: Educating Girls about STEM-Related Careers
APA Ambassador activity by Akshali Gandhi at Pittburgh's Girls Rock Science event, teaching girls about STEM related careers. -
May 17, 2016
L.A. High Schoolers Learn about Planning and Social Equity at UCLA
Los Angeles high school students learned about city planning and social equity at a conference put on by a planning student organization at UCLA. -
May 16, 2016
Box City @FSU – Engaging and Inspiring Local Children in Florida
Students at Havana Magnet School in Leon County, Florida, participate in a Florida State University and APA Ambassadors Pilot Program to plan and build their own city. -
May 12, 2016
Teaching Conservation Planning to 3rd Graders
Two APA Ambassadors worked with a 3rd grade class learning about conservation planning. -
May 3, 2016
Denver High School Students Tackle Issues Facing Their Community
A high school class in Denver is studying gentrification and its impact on their lives. -
May 2, 2016
Playability and the Play Everywhere Challenge
KaBOOM! is launching the Play Everywhere Challenge, which will provide $1 million to fund creative ideas to create playful installations in everyday places. -
April 27, 2016
Update: Kids iPlan Camp
A look at the iPlan Healthy Communities summer camp at Georgia Tech. -
March 10, 2016
I Was an Ambassador for Planning in a Third Grade Classroom
Although I had never given a presentation at an elementary school class, I knew it was going to be slam-dunk ... until I greeted them.
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