Dallas Mapping Project
David, Editor-in-chief
Deion, Editor
My name is Deion L. and I am a junior at Skyline High School in the Architecture Cluster. I was born and raised in Dallas TX. I like to play video games and plan on making a million dollars by the time I am 21. I enjoy working with children, and my favorite food is pasta. I am currently a volunteer at the Perot Museum, and my favorite exhibit hall is the Engineering Hall. My hero is Barack Obama- and, one day I hope to meet him.
David V. is an 11th grader in the Skyline Architecture Cluster. He is an active member of the Skyline Green Team and Architecture Club. He travels 30 minutes from Seagoville to Skyline every day. David is a sports fanatic and loves to draw. His favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Rangers. His career interests are architectural engineering, and civil engineering, and he enjoys solving math problems in his head, which usually has a Rangers or Cowboys cap on it!
Liliana is a junior in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School and an active member of the Green Team. She is very hard working and doesn’t like to depend too much on other people. Her career interest is Interior Design. She loves unicorns and dinosaurs and still believes in Santa Claus. She is a very spontaneous and random person, and a good friend to hang out with. No matter what happens to her, she still manages to keep a smile on her face. :D
My name is Karem and I am a junior at Skyline High School in the Architecture Cluster. I am very involved in my school and my community. I am the vice president of the Architecture Club, a Green Team Captain, an NHS member, and I participate in the ACE mentoring program and volunteer at the Perot Museum and the Dallas Arboretum. Art is my passion- I love to draw, and I aspire to become an architect in the future. Two years ago when I went trick-or-treating, I was a Ninja…with TOMS shoes.
Liliana, Editor
Karem, Editor-in-chief
Moises
Moises G. is a student in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He is an advocate for protecting our planet and does his part each week as a Captain of the Skyline Green Team. He is very interested in the field of design, and pursues this by being active in a mentoring program, ACE, which stands for architecture, construction, and engineering. He is a former amateur saxophone player who still loves music. He is also an animal lover, and a vegetarian who one day hopes to help animals. His favorite hobbies are drawing, driving, and snapping interesting photos.
Anibal
Anibal F. is a student in Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He is a member of the Skyline Architecture Club and a Captain of the Green Team, a student organization that leads the recycling operations at his school of 4,500 students. He is interested in music and he plays acoustic and electric guitar, and bass. He is fascinated with the way that random sounds can become melodies and, before you know it, transform into an astonishing piece of music.
Asad, born November 15th 1996, is a Skyline High School student, and wrestler. In his free time, he likes to hang out with his friends, wrestle, and watch movies. Asad is also an active member of the Skyline Green Team, and Education Is Freedom, a youth program to assist students in high school with their college planning. Asad is in the Architecture Cluster program at Skyline and is studying to become an architect. In wrestling, he is a two time city, and district champion. He hopes one day to start a wrestling club for young boys to compete and have fun.
Yanely
Yanely A. is a junior in the Skyline Architecture Cluster. She is a proud bookworm, devouring novels like they are going out of style. She is also a music fiend, and loves to spend her days listening to music from around the world, particularly traditional and classical music. On any given day, you’re likely to find her at Wingstop with her friends, or dancing spontaneously in grocery stores, sometimes while wearing an elaborate costume. On a lazy day, you can find her engaged in a new Korean drama or reading a book outdoors. She likes to keep things fun, light hearted, and interesting- never taking herself too seriously.
Patrick is a student at Skyline High School. He is active in his church, and enjoys meeting new people. He is also an assistant teacher in a church program during the summer months. He is a “play-by-the-rules” kind of guy that enjoys helping others. His favorite things to do are practicing magic tricks and playing guitar. He is striving to become a very successful person… and a great magician.
Matthew
Matthew R. was born September 3, 1995. He is an 11th grader and is a student in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He likes to hang out with friends and family. In his spare time he likes to play new instruments. His favorite music genres are Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, and R&B. His long term goal is to one day become one of the best producers in music.
Luis G. is in the 11th grade and is part of the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School in Dallas, TX. He loves to hang out with friends and explore different places around Dallas. His main goal in life is to become a business man and entrepreneur, and open up different businesses worldwide. To achieve his goals, he plans to attend The University of North Texas or The University of Texas Dallas and major in business. One day he hopes to become a philanthropist and donate to different organizations to help people in need.
Jared W. is in the 11th grade and goes to Skyline High School in Dallas, TX. His main hobbies are playing baseball and spending time with friends. On the baseball diamond his teammates call him “Blue”, and he plays 2nd base on the varsity baseball team at Skyline. They call him “Blue” because that’s also a nickname for a baseball umpire, and he is always talking to and calling them. When he gets the opportunity, he loves to steal bases to help put the team in a better position to score more runs. His career interests are business, financing, and architectural engineering. He plans to attend The University of North Texas at Denton when he graduates from high school, and then become an architect.
Chiundra
Chiundra was born on March 9, 1996 and loves to play sports. My favorite sports are football, basketball, and track. I also like to listen to music and draw. I am a student at Skyline High School’s Architecture Cluster where I am studying under Mr. G. When I’m bored I listen to music or take a shower, these things help me clear my mind. My favorite type of music is R&B which is very soothing to me. One day, I want to learn to play golf. And, I hope to become a great artist. I am one of those people who wants to try lots of exciting things like skydiving and rock climbing- I feel you have to try new things to learn new things.
Erian
Edeer G. is a member of the Green Team recycling family at Skyline High School. He spends most of his time trying to be productive, both physically and mentally. He really enjoys listening to music such as instrumentals and hip hop beats without lyrics, because it relaxes and soothes his mind. He is a proud member of the Architecture Cluster, and enjoys himself every class period because learning about buildings, cities, and drawing is intriguing to him.
Most people that know me will probably describe me as one of the coolest, funniest, goofiest and nicest people that they`ve ever met. But on rare occasions, I can also be angry or upset. A couple of my hobbies are drawing, playing videogames, watching TV, and playing sports. I’m a huge basketball fanatic, it’s been my favorite sport for a long time and, that’s mostly what I do in my free time. I have really weird taste in music, and I listen to almost anything, no matter how old or out dated it is. I originally wanted to be a professional athlete when I was younger, but after a couple of years of thinking, I decided that wasn’t really for me. During that time I developed an interest in drawing, and after I saw the skylines of other cities on travels outside of Dallas, I joined the Architecture Cluster at Skyline, to study architecture and hopefully pursue a degree in architecture.
Edgar S. is a junior at Skyline High School. He also likes to draw and wants to pursue a degree in business management. He has been in the architecture program for three years, but wants to study other fields. In the future, he wants to own his own business or become an entrepreneur. He finds cities interesting and would like to own his own building firm- that way he can see a building come to life, and get paid to do what he loves.
I am Juan G., born August, 9 1996. I attend Skyline High School in Dallas, TX. Being a student in the Architecture Cluster has helped me appreciate art, and I enjoy spending time playing sports and being with friends. In the future, I plan to be a movie director. My favorite movie is The Expendables, and I want to make action movies and movies that tell emotional stories.
Jesus
Jesus is a student attending Skyline High School. He is 16 years old, and he is very smart, but he is lazy sometimes. He is a very nice guy, and very talkative. Jesus likes to play tennis occassionally but what he really is passionate about is soccer- and, he hopes to also follow his dreams of being a professional soccer player. Jesus loves alternative rock, mainstream hip-hop and pop music. Every other day of the week he plays soccer with his friends at parks in Oak Cliff. He also loves Applebee’s and cats, which he has two of.
Omar O. is a junior in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He is an active member of the Architecture Club, Green Team, National Honor Society, and ACE Mentor Program. Last summer, he was an intern at Shakespeare Dallas, and participated in an architectural summer program, Destination Dallas, at the Nasher Sculpture Center. He enjoys discovering new ideas through art and design, and he is self-motived and looks forward to pursuing his dreams in architecture
KenDarius
I am KenDarius, and I play the piano at my local church, and spend a lot of my time improving myself for the better. I am in the 11th grade in the Skyline Architecture Cluster, in Dallas, Texas. I enjoy nature, life, and hiking on beautiful days. My ideal hike would be on a Sunday morning through beautiful trails. I am an outgoing person and enjoy conversations.
Mr. Goldstein
Peter Goldstein is a licensed architect and a teacher in the Skyline Architecture Cluster. Skyline High School was the nation’s first magnet high school, and the Architecture Cluster is a college prep magnet program for students interested in careers in architecture and design related fields.
Mr. G, as he is known to his students, has architecture degrees from Tulane University and Yale, and has taught in the Skyline Architecture Cluster since 2000. He was the Skyline Teacher of the Year in 2007, and was a semifinalist for the DallasISD Teacher of the Year. He has won numerous awards, and he and his students have been included in many publications and exhibitions including the 2011 exhibition, Sculpting Space- 299 chairs at the Dallas Museum of Art. He is a founding board member of the Dallas Center for Architecture, and leads the Destination Dallas Workshop at the Nasher Sculpture Center and The Rachofsky House, and he is an instructor at the Fallingwater High School Residency Program in Western Pennsylvania.
Mr. Goldstein was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Award in 2012, and will be conducting research at the University of Cape Town, and working with local high school students on a mapping project of Cape Town, South Africa from March through July 2013.
Mr. Goldstein is an avid tennis player, and in his day was one of the top ranked players in the Dallas Independent School District. He enjoys working with young people, spending time with his family, long walks by the lake, and one day he hopes to learn how to play the guitar.
Edgar
Omar
Karina attends Skyline High School in Dallas, TX. She is in the Architecture Cluster and is well known in the JROTC program at Skyline for high performance on special teams. Being in the Architecture Cluster has inspired her to want to do animation as her future career. She enjoys spending time with friends and exploring the city of Dallas. Karina plans to go far and explore other places.
Ernesto
Ernesto M. is 17 years old and currently attends Skyline High School. He enjoys having a good time, and he currently does community service at a local recreation center. When he is feeling lazy he goes to sleep, and listens to music. Ernesto is a very entertaining story teller, and loves to make his friends laugh. He’s different in many ways, but that’s what makes him a one-of-a-kind kid who works hard to achieve what he really wants.
Laura
My name is Laura C., I am a junior in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. My favorite subject this year has been Physics, since I realized I like to understand how and why things work the way they do. In my free time I love to draw, listen to music, dance, and read. I would love to become an architect or a graphic or virtual designer, or an animation and game designer. And, one day, I would like to travel around the world. I love listening to all types of music including Classical, Alternative, Rock, German metal, and even Korean Pop!
Crystal
Crystal H. is currently an eleventh grader in Skyline High School’s Architecture Cluster. She enjoys mathematics and physics and plans to pursue a career in architecture. Crystal is part of the Skyline Architecture Club and Eastfield College’s Upward Bound program. She strives to do the best she can on whatever she sets her mind to. During her free time she likes to spend time with her family and friends, or play the guitar.
Cedric
My name is Cedric H. I was born on April 1, 1996 (on April Fool’s Day). I attend the great Skyline High School Architecture Cluster, graduate in 2014, and I am in the marching band and jazz band and happen to be a music fanatic. I play the baritone and trombone and I am co-section leader. I mainly listen to rap, hip-hop, and R&B. I also listen to jazz and the blues. The things I like to do outside of school are play basketball and video games.
Jessica
My name is Jessica, I’m 17 years old, very energetic- I like to dance, sing and listen to music. I also love to draw and I spend most of my time when I'm not in school, working at my job as a cashier which I enjoy. I dream of one day becoming a successful veterinarian or artist- art is my thing. I love spending time with my loved ones and enjoy family nights.
Malik
I’m Malik and I am an “all-around”, type guy. I’m 16 years old, and participate in many activities. I play football and run track for my high school and I enjoy working out and solving problems of any kind. I strive to be the best at any and everything. In my spare time, I participate in a mentoring program at my church. I am all about bettering myself and helping the people around me.
Ricardo, Editor-in-chief
Ricardo J. is a current student in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He loves to play video games like Call of Duty. He is currently learning about business marketing and his interests include architecture and computers. One day, he would like to study and work in the gaming industry, and be the director and designer of his own videogame.
Selisa
Selisa Gonzalez attends Skyline High School and is in the Architecture Cluster. She is someone who loves her sleep but also loves to be out and about. There is never a dull moment for her because she fills her days with excitement. She is a humorous person who cracks a few jokes now and then- having a couple of laughs and making memories with her friends are her favorite things to do. She also likes to be alone sometimes to listen to music or even take a walk outside and enjoy nature. You can say she is somewhat of a tomboy because she would rather play video games than go shopping.
Asad
Patrick
Luis
Jared
Edeer
Juan
Karina
Abraham
Abraham G.is a junior in the Architecture Cluster at Skyline High School. He enjoys drawing and staying active. He currently spends his time with school and a part-time job in a grocery store. Although he works and goes to school, he is also active in the community and helps out with Green Team at Skyline every chance he can. He is working to complete his education and reach his goal of becoming successful later in life.