da Vinci Arts & Science Environmental Leadership Program

The client

The da Vinci Arts & Science Environmental Leadership Program is a new interdisciplinary program open to all grade 11 students from the Upper Grand District School Board. The program is run through John F. Ross CVI, and has its classroom in a natural setting nestled amongst hiking trails, forests and ponds of the Arboretum at the University of Guelph.

Client goals

The website provides an introduction to the da Vinci Secondary Program, as well as the Eco-Artist Elementary Program that allows fourth grade students to get a chance to explore science and art at four different habitat areas of the Arboretum: The Grasslands, The Art Gardens, the Woodlands and the Wetlands under the supervision of the da Vinci students.

Implementation

The main elements of the website were created by the students and  teacher of the program , including writing editing of the text, uploading the galleries, creating the design and working with Northern Village to implement the design. Further editing was providing  Northern Village to ensure that the Upper Grand District School Board policies were being followed. Village CMS provides a password protection on the editing site so that it can only be viewed by people with usernames and passwords.