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AVL DBS WEEK 9
Get ‘er done.
The pressure is on this week as we approach our August 1st deadline for presentation of the stage at the 1st annual Downtown Asheville LEAF festival. On Monday Morning we took the trailer over to Hoss Haley’s to complete the structural welds on the steel members of the canopy. While the trailer was gone we stained the plywood floor and cut slots for the knife plates into the wood 4x4′s. Once the stage returned to AB-Tech we installed floor joists on the wings and on the trailer bed. The canopy 4x4′s were lifted into place on the knife plates and clamped into place while we completed installation of the plywood floor. At Clemson our names along with all of our sponsors were CNC cut into rim boards. Once the plywood flooring was installed we could finally start working installation of the Suntuf roof. By Friday we have a stage, tada!
On Friday afternoon the stage was picked up and we all crossed our fingers as it rode away. It made it downtown and we met in the morning to set up the stage for the day. Seeing the stage in use was surreal. After 9 weeks of hard work with our minds constantly working it was abnormal to sit back and enjoy the show. The highlight for me was not seeing the professional performers but the children. Providing a platform for them to perform their routines and seeing the pride they displayed was unforgettable.
This project began with the intention to build a stage for members of the community who do not have access to one in their neighborhood. Throughout the process it was easy to get caught up in all the new skills we were learning and forget about the main goal. Although, that was the beauty of the whole project to me. That as a result of giving students the opportunity to learn to build their designs the community could reap the benefits. I hope LEAF continues to use the stage to promote art and music education and to give kids the opportunities to perform for their friends and families and gain confidence at the same time.
The beauty is that multiple members of the community with a diversity of missions/goals could benefit from this project which ultimately results in a physical object that is really for a future generation of individuals.