McClure Middle School

Last Saturday four members of team younger and one team veteran headed out to McClure Middle School on Queen Anne for a bit of extra credit. McClure Middle School has about 600 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 with most of the students coming from the surrounding Queen Anne neighborhood. The building was built in the 1960s and is mostly brown brick walls which needed to be painted, this is where Seattle Works and City Year volunteers came in.
This project was huge, easily one of the largest scale projects I've worked on in my 2 years with Team Works. City year did a great job of keeping things organized, which was good a project of this size would have quickly failed if not for good leadership with a strong plan of how to get everything done. The City Year volunteers were a bit intense on some of their plan, I sometimes felt like I was being treated like a teenager who has no idea how to paint a wall or avoid walking in paint, that aside I had a good time and we got quite a bit done in the 4 hours we were there. We left at 1pm after getting a huge amount of the school primed and ready to be painted the following week. I will say that the City Year volunteers are quite dedicated (more then us at least) as they stayed to finish the school.

After a day of painting Marisa, Nick, Ann Marie (who was covered in paint, seriously, covered) and I headed to a bar for a post project beer, while Claudia headed out to possibly adopt a kitten.

Check flickr for photos of painting.