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2007 Racing to Play - BaltimoreIt was a great day to play in Baltimore on Sept. 20 when the Racing to Play program built a new racing-themed playground at Northwood Appold Community Academy. More than 200 volunteers from local The Home Depot stores, Joe Gibbs Racing, Morgan State University and the community worked together to build the playground in just one day. Racing to Play is a partnership between The Home Depot, Joe Gibbs Racing and KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit organization whose vision is to create a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. During the program’s third year, we’re building 10 more racing-themed playgrounds in select NASCAR race markets. By the end of the 2007 NASCAR season, we’ll have built 30 racing-themed playgrounds. Northwood Appold Community Academy is a public charter school serving more than 200 children in grades kindergarten though fourth grade. The school opened in 2005 and did not have a playground. The local playground experts – the children who attend Northwood Appold Community Academy – helped design the playground. There are lots of cool things on the new playground like mirrored slither slides, a sliding pole, swings, triple shoot-out, bounce buttons and hopscotch, crescent, beanstalk and silo climbers as well as activities like a steering wheel, a storefront, telescope, babble-on and driving panel. We also built outdoor chalkboards, a podium, child-size picnic tables, benches, trash containers and birdhouses on peace poles and painted a mural and games like four square and hopscotch on the asphalt. The kids worked on craft projects to further enhance the area and entertained the volunteers with songs all day. Our team worked to assemble the swings and the playground welcome sign. On Nov. 8, Racing to Play will be in Phoenix to build the last playground of the 2007 season and the thirtieth playground in the program’s three years. Visit www.kaboom.org to learn how to have a playground built in your community. Through Racing to Play – we’re not just building playgrounds – we’re building dreams. Let’s Play, Members of #18 Interstate Batteries Racing Team Kyle Chapman, spotter |
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