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MDC Faculty and Staff

Green Your Curriculum

MDC Institute for
Ethics In Health Care

Audio Lectures

Outdoor
Immersions

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for Students

Challenge Grants
For Students

Community Education

Organic Gardens
In the Community

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Film Viewing

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Earth Musings

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Past Programs

  
 
 
 Sustainable Urban Design
Challenge Grant Winners

Kendall Project
 
 

1st Place - Fernando Herrerra

 

  

2nd  Place - Marc Ricketts
(With Professor Amar Sawhney)
 

3rd Place - Jessica Valenzuela
(With Professor Amar Sawhney)

   Professor Amar Sawhney assigned a project for students in his Design 4 class to design an "urban oasis" at the corner of Kendall and 107th Ave. This area is to be a mixed use development in the context of sustainable architecture and urban design and should provide residents with both entertainment and necessary daily errand activities.

Designs were judged
on the following elements:

Overall urban design
Pedestrian walkways
Environmental considerations
Neighborhood connections
Transportation connections
Link to Miami Dade College
Link to Dadeland Mall
 
 

 

  
Perrine Project
Design 4

1st Place - Claudia Diaz

2nd Place - Mercedez Gonzalez
3rd Place - Lenin Monterrey
Honorable Mention - Eduarado Chakkal
 
MDC Kendall Campus
Proposed Information Center
Design 2
1st Place -Miranda Romer
2nd Place -Eric Ramiz
3rd Place - Kendall Duncan
Honorable Mention - David Cobiella
Honorable Mention - Taina Mayard
 

 Chandra links pulsar to historic supernova