Blog #6 6/8/21

Mourad Zeynalov

Tue, June 8

Hawken Project Blog


Today we finished placing the final touches and have officially completed the project. On Monday we delivered and spread all of the sand (all during a heavy rainstorm) with shovels and landscaping rakes. Standing over the finished pit I was quite surprised at how easy it was to actually build compared to the lengths necessary to get approval. Nevertheless, the final product was perfect. The amount of sand we ordered was the perfect amount, the barriers folded into a clean circle and the sand was spread evenly with little spilling out of the circle. We even spotted a group of underclassmen playing on its first day. With the pit out of the way, we wanted to leave a mark to remind the school of what Spikeball is and to instruct future players on the rules. So we set up designing and laser cutting a sign that would have a short description of the rules as well as our names and clean-up instructions, all replete with the bold text: HAWKEN SPIKEBALL COURT. When we hammer it into the ground tomorrow it will be the last part of our project.

P.S. We are also excited the court will be included in the Hoopla.

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