We have been working diligently for the past 6 years now to create pipelines for youth in our city. Some of these pipeline projects have included:

1) The Industrial Arts Roundtable connecting with local industry and design in the arts here in Santa Ana

2) Coding with the Community A project where local Santanero Chris Camacho, a student of computer science at Tufts University, came back for the summer and shared with the community the basics of coding in a series of workshops at SAUSD and at the Garfield Community Center.

3) Being on the Founding Team that brought Circulos to SAUSD, an XQ-funded program piloting a school without walls

4) Circulos is connected to the OC Juega Project as Segerstroms and worked with designers from the Industrial Arts Roundtable at Stacy Dukes Design and Oval Integrations to Engineer their own conception of creation.

5) Bringing the Children's Business Fair to Downtown Santa Ana.

6) Established SAUSD LitCon the first District-Wide literature competition throughout the School District. Finalists across the district after a unified performance with judges as selected to perform at our Annual Boca de Oro Festival of Literary Arts and Culture. Santa Ana Final Edit

7) Working with Arts OC to bring back our Poetry Out Loud Program. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, California proudly holds court as home to the largest Poetry Out Loud competition in the country.

8) Establishing a Sustainability Project of creating Green Alleys for Downtown designed by the community and for the community. The community being SAUSD Circulos Students working with local Architecture Firm, Visioneering Studios in Downtown to develop a full proposal to green the alleys adding green space as well as a sustainability component into a Downtown whose alleys become rivers when it rains.

9) Downtown Threads: Santa Ana In Design. This project connects a pipeline between SAUSD Fashion and Merchandising Group and Santa Ana College Fashion and Merchandising with Local Professional Designers in Downtown Santa Ana.

10) The newest project which continues a pilot begun with SAUSD Career and Technical Institute now taken on by Ryan Forster in collaboration with LearningFuze is a Small Business Technology Program Thrive & GO-LIVE where businesses, making up 10% in Downtown, who require help with websites and all social media are given a team to work with to set up a website, start up a social media presence and market themselves. These interns build their portfolios and are being drawn from 4 District programs that support building these pipelines. 2 SAUSD interns are paired with Coders and a Volunteer. The team is made up of 4 people.

Finally, we are beginning a campaign using Downtown as the pilot for establishing a citywide Kid-Friendly City Initiative this is an UN-Habitat initiative that has policy goals already drawn out which can be adopted by cities.