Effort and Planning: A Crucial Part of our Successful Mosaic
We began planning meetings in the fall of 2014. This started by working with an image of the parking lot captured from Google Earth to help with the planning of our design. An order for 3,000 umbrellas was placed in December 2014. We took pictures of the lot during a pre-convention visit in May to assist with logistics. In both May and July we walked the parking lot. The Rosen Centre Hotel closed the parking lot to its staff beginning on July 2nd. A small team created a grid outline using spray chalk in the parking lot on July 4th.
Test columns of dots were laid out on July 5th, the first of 3,280 dots to be sprayed.
Teams of fifteen continued with the spray chalk at 5 a.m. on both the mornings of July 6th and 7th.
Work was scheduled for the evening of the 7th, but a particularly angry Florida storm forced us to change plans.
About twenty folks helped place umbrellas at 5 a.m. on July 8th.
Our work plan had assignments for 113 staff and volunteers, but, as is typical of NFB events, additional willing hands jumped in wherever needed. It turned out we needed those hands as well to make up the mosaic.
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