Heatherwood Elementary School children study the ecosystem and offer recommendations for nature discovery at the City of Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Wood Brothers property

Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø, a CEDaR program, nationally recognized for finding innovative ways to bring children back to school safely during the pandemic

Nov. 13, 2020

GUB Director Mara Mintzer presented to the National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative, which supports schools and districts nationwide to develop outdoor spaces as cost-effective tools for keeping schools open during a pandemic.

Children sitting around a table.

Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø, a CEDaR program, featured in 'Britannica for Parents' podcast

Nov. 12, 2020

Early-childhood experts often like to say that a child’s environment is one of their most important teachers. But what can our built environments learn from children? In this "Raising Curious Learners" episode of "Britannica for Parents," Mara Mintzer, co-founder and director of Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø, discusses the importance of involving young people in the city planning process.

Mara Mintzer shows children from the Uni-Hill School the child-friendly map.

Colorado Public Radio: Building child-friendly cities

Jan. 23, 2020

In an interview with Colorado Public Radio, hear Mara Mintzer, director of Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø, speak about the creation of the nation's first "child-friendly city map."

Girls point to a map they designed

Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø interviewed on KGNU about new Child-friendly Map

May 3, 2019

KGNU has a live conversation about a new, first in the nation, printed child-friendly city map that’s helping kids learn how to navigate their way around Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

Whittier Elementary first-graders Sean Lee, from left; Tevin Loku Umagiliyage and Eber Garcia-Gonzalez get their first look at a kid-friendly map of Â鶹¹ÙÍø they helped create through Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø, a collaboration among Â鶹¹ÙÍø, the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Valley School District and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø, worked with about 700 elementary students for the project.

Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø's collaboration with 700 elementary students on city map featured in Daily Camera story

April 29, 2019

Working with about 700 Â鶹¹ÙÍø elementary students and two Â鶹¹ÙÍø environmental design seniors, Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø has created a new, child-friendly map of the city.

Mara Mintzer being interviewed on Channel 8

First Child-Friendly Map featured in Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Ch. 8

April 29, 2019

Kids in Â鶹¹ÙÍø will now be able to navigate around town thanks to the first ever child-friendly map, a map made for kids, by kids.

Three children sitting around a map.

10th anniversary Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø and launch of the nation's first child-friendly map

March 15, 2019

Celebrate Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø's 10th anniversary and the launch of the nation's first child-friendly map.

Parents walking with kids in strollers in Vancouver Park

Bringing Up Baby...Downtown

July 28, 2018

Sidewalk Labs looks at how North American cities are turning to a suite of planning and design innovations to keep families. This includes Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Colorado, where Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø asks kids themselves what they want, and the city incorporates its tiniest residents' ideas into transportation and other municipal plans.

Carson Byerhof explains his poster to an attendee

Student projects revitalizing The Hill focus of Dec. 15 open house

Dec. 7, 2017

Colorado MetroLab, a partnership between CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Colorado city governments, organized a design workshop where CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø environmental design (ENVD) students, neighborhood residents and elementary school students gave their ideas for revitalizing Â鶹¹ÙÍø's University Hill area.

Student puts a green frame around a bus sign that is low down so kids can read it. The green sign shows she approves of it.

Collaboration gives children 'seat at table' in city planning

April 24, 2017

Second-grade English language learners from Whittier Elementary saw their suggestions for upgrading the HOP bus implemented, their input made possible through the CEDaR program Growing Up Â鶹¹ÙÍø (GUB), a youth-friendly initiative.