The project and our team name Bicycle Transit Planning Team will hopefully continue in some form or another in the fall, and there are already a number of ideas for projects for next year's bike team in IDEASS. If you have other ideas, visit the IDEASS website and submit them here! We'll also be sure to send out the final report for our project through a special issue of the Pedaling Periodical in July.
Here's what we'll be doing after we graduate!
Aly will be taking a break from the sciences in order to be working at Yelp in San Francisco in the field of sales. Although Aly already accepts that she’s going to incredibly miss all the beautiful bike paths in Santa Cruz, she vows to continue bike riding in San Francisco and her hometown. For instance, her mother at first wanted to drop her off to work in the early morning; however, Aly negotiated with her mom to let her bike to BART in order for Aly to continue using alternative modes of transportation and get the best wake-up possible! Aly wants to continue working in public policy either by volunteering or staying involved with the new and upcoming IDEASS team of next year! Last but not least, Aly hopes to collaborate with her dad, who is a mechanic, to build her own bicycle that she will rep with the ultimate pride. Alright, alright, alright!
Melissa will be sticking around Santa Cruz for at least the next year, bicycling everywhere as usual and continuing to work on environmental issues. She'll be re-joining the UCSC Sustainability Office for the summer after a quarter-long break. Melissa worked in this office for the past three years as a student, so she's excited to be able to return as a part-time member of the Office for awhile. She'll also be the Santa Cruz Sierra Club's new Outreach Coordinator, helping to promote the events, campaigns, and work of our local chapter. At the end of next week, she will be graduating with a BA in Literature, which will feature in her new positions primarily through the writing skills and analytic thinking skills she has gained in the past four years. Certainly she'll be reading literature when she isn't working and possibly keeping her eye on a future of graduate school to become a professor... but who knows where her path may lead?? She hopes to stay connected to the IDEASS bike project next year in whatever ways possible, as well as continue to volunteer with People Power, Ecology Action, and other organizations doing really important work to support bicycling in Santa Cruz!
Thank you to everyone who has supported our project this year, and to all of the professors, mentors, instructors, family, and friends who have been there throughout our four years as banana slugs at UCSC! We are so grateful for the opportunity to complete this fantastic project this year, and we could not have done it without the support of so many awesome people. Of all these fabulous folks, though, we have to give the biggest thanks to Tiffany Wise-West and Amelia Conlen, our project mentors for the year. It's been so awesome to work with such inspiring, dedicated women who have provided so much guidance and support to us all year!
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