Adiel

This month’s installment of our Community Spotlight series features our first ever Junior Project Designer, Adiel. Adiel participated in our Apprenticeship Program in 2020 and has spent the last year working on our Project Leaders team.

During summer 2021, Adiel worked as a Constellation Specialist at Beam Camp City where he worked closely with Beam’s Project Designer Lizzie and other Project Leaders to cast, paint, and assemble ceramic bells for our big project CONSTELLATION. CONSTELLATION was a suite of interactive sound sculptures designed by Ye Qin Zhu and built by NYC youth at Beam Camp City.

Adiel worked with the Project Leaders team again for the 2021-2022 school year, and he was given the opportunity to work at a new partner site rather than with our existing CAMBA partnerships. Adiel collaborated with two other Project Leaders and designed projects specifically for 6th and 7th grade students at the Dock Street School in Brooklyn.

This summer, Adiel will be working closely with Lizzie at Beam Camp City once again to design domain projects and teach them to other youth employees and campers. Adiel is taking on more responsibility than some of his peers, though, taking more of a leadership role in the design and prototype of all smaller projects youth will be making on Governors Island. When asked what he is looking forward to in his new role at Beam Camp City, he says “last year I was following a path that was already created, but now I am creating a path for campers and other Project Leaders to follow.” 

Adiel states that his favorite part of designing projects is seeing the end result - to which he added, “it’s a great feeling to see the final product, because we spend weeks trying different things and changing them.” He also says that Beam is special in that “you get to be free and someone isn’t on top of you telling you what to do” but rather guides you through the process of building things. He adds, “Beam helped me be creative and find different solutions to one problem.” 

We’re excited to welcome you into a new role, Adiel!