Day #2 First Clean-up

    Today was our first real day of clean-up. We were fortunate enough to have maintence at our backs as they provided us with necessary supplies to kickstart our project. We collected brooms, rakes, and shovels and headed on over to the skate park to get started. Ben Bartoldus, our mentor joined us today because it was his day off. We made significant progress on the skate park, shoveling, raking, and sweeping dirt and leaves that had build up in every crack and crevasse. We also noticed that many of the transitions from the park features to the ground had very large cracks that made riding skateboards quite sketchy if you didnt know what you were doing. To fix this, we plan to get some sealent (looking into exactly what we need) that will make these transitions smoother and less treacherous. Overall, we made some solid progress today on cleaning up our skate park.

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