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Millsap ES receives SPARK School Park playground
Representatives from the SPARK School Park Program visited students and staff at Millsap Elementary School on Nov. 19 to officially dedicate a SPARK school park to the campus. This is the seventh SPARK School Park in CFISD.
The SPARK School Park Program focuses on developing neighborhood parks on public school grounds throughout the Houston and Harris County area. Each park is designed based on ideas and needs of each school and surrounding neighborhoods.
“It is truly special to be a part of creating a space that will serve our students, families and communities for years to come,” said Joy Dauphin, Millsap principal.
The project is part of SPARK’s Park Desert Initiative that helps ensure that Houstonians have access to a park within 10 minutes or 1/2 mile of their home. Park Desert Initiative funders, Kinder, Brown and Cullen foundations, and Houston Endowment contributed more than $245,000 towards the project. CFISD contributed $5,000 and the campus raised $5,000 to contribute to the project totaling just under $300,000.
The Millsap SPARK Park includes three traditional composite play units with climbers, slides and an integrated shade canopy, shaded swings, regular swings, a GameTime Expression tandem swing, picnic tables, trash cans and two concrete benches and pads.
Source: CFISD
