Karyn Stanley 4/5/24 Karyn Stanley 4/5/24

Keep Truckee Green Monthly Mending & Repair Workshops

In 2023, in response to the overwhelming amount of clothing we saw needing repair at our Fix-It Clinics, we launched free Monthly Mending and Repair Workshops to teach our community how to repair clothing instead of throwing it away. Together with Keep Truckee Green, we offer classes in patching, visible mending, winter gear repair, darning, zipper replacement, and more to reduce textile waste while teaching new skills to the community.

Keep Truckee Green is the Town of Truckee’s sustainability, solid waste, and resiliency program. They coordinate the planning and implementation of our Town’s waste reduction and climate change actions. In partnership with our community, they foster culture to proactively address climate change and lead by example.

The Keep Truckee Green team is guided by an interdisciplinary Sustainability Committee, which includes staff from all Town divisions.

Karyn Stanley 3/22/24 Karyn Stanley 3/22/24

Sierra High School

Sierra High School has partnered with the Roundhouse since 2018, and uses the makerspace as part of its Sources of Strength (SOS) program. The Source of Strength program is a wellness program that encourages enrichment activities as a way to establish trust, community, and emotional resilience for some of our most vulnerable and disadvantaged youth in the Truckee Tahoe Unified School District. The students have had the chance to take classes in Wood, Metal, Ceramics, and Textiles over the years.

Sierra Continuation High School is a unique and talented blend of students, educators, support staff, and community members who, as role models and mentors, are vested in creating a high-quality, nurturing, and safe learning environment. Sierra High School is dedicated to providing our students with the education, guidance, and support necessary to succeed in all aspects of life. Multiple local entities contribute to the success of Sierra High, and we thank all of you for your generous donations of not only funding but your countless donation of hours to our students.

Karyn Stanley 3/15/24 Karyn Stanley 3/15/24

Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP)

Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP) has partnered with the Truckee Roundhouse throughout the years on several projects to promote environmental stewardship by connecting students to their local community and environment.

Since 2018, SWEP has utilized the Truckee Roundhouse Textiles shop and experts to help design and create their ‘Trashion Fashion’ outfits. They display their outfits at their ‘Trashion Show’, a fashion show of artistic outfits made from trash, each with a commentary piece that is light-hearted, informative, and sends a message of positive action. The students advocate work to empower other students and the general public to take action towards conservation measures in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation, composting, and recycling, through “Lead It, Live It” Trashion Shows.

Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP) is a small, community-oriented non-profit organization based within the Tahoe Truckee Region. They started in 1994 as a small group of parents and teachers interested in providing comprehensive science & environmental education to local students that connect them to their neighborhood creeks and forests.

Karyn Stanley 3/14/24 Karyn Stanley 3/14/24

Truckee River School

In the fall of 2022, we welcomed a new community education program with Truckee River School. Truckee River School is part of TTUSD’s alternative education program. Their small school setting offers students a variety of opportunities to engage, and in some cases re-engage, in their education in a more individualized way.

Our partnership with Truckee River School allows students to not only build their skills and have fun, but to connect to the community and envision different possibilities for the future.

Our Education and Community Enrichment Program creates pathways of accessibility for members of our community who might otherwise lack access to the tools, mentors, and vocational exposure that programs at the Truckee Roundhouse provides.

Karyn Stanley 3/8/24 Karyn Stanley 3/8/24

Fixit Clinics

The Roundhouse and Keep Truckee Green have partnered since 2018 to promote sustainability in our community.

We host two Community FixIt Clinics each year together. These events are free for all — the community brings broken household and electronic items for our expert volunteer fixers to help repair rather than replace, saving money and serving to keep waste out of our landfills. Our volunteer FixIt Experts help community members learn new skills while fixing items and reducing waste.

Repair is a sustainable act that encourages reusing resources rather than purchasing new ones. Our events have repaired items like toaster ovens, wooden chairs, lamps, puffy jackets, denim jeans, and more. While not all items are always repairable, participants always leave with valuable repair skills.

The Keep Truckee Green team is guided by an interdisciplinary Sustainability Committee, which includes staff from all Town divisions.

Karyn Stanley 12/1/23 Karyn Stanley 12/1/23

Boy and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe

The Boys and Girls Club of North Tahoe Middle School Maker Club came to the Roundhouse for 3 sessions of making in May of 2019. The group designed appliques that they cut on the laser and then ironed onto messenger bags they created in the Textiles shop, thus learning skills on the laser and sewing machines. They also designed, lasered, and painted a sign for their clubhouse.

The Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe’s mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Karyn Stanley 11/17/23 Karyn Stanley 11/17/23

First Tuesday for Planet Earth; a partnership with SWEP and Keep Truckee Green

In 2019, we launched First Tuesdays for Planet Earth, a series of donation-based and public hands-on-making events. The events were designed to reduce the dependency on single-use plastic and raise awareness of the impact small positive actions can have on Planet Earth.

Workshops included reusable grocery bags, beeswax, and cotton covers (to replace using saran wrap), plastic bag drying racks, glass/metal straw carriers, etc.

These events are a meaningful partnership between Keep Truckee Green, Truckee Roundhouse, and Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships to support a greener Truckee Tahoe.

The Keep Truckee Green team is guided by an interdisciplinary Sustainability Committee, which includes staff from all Town divisions.

Karyn Stanley 11/1/23 Karyn Stanley 11/1/23

Boy Scout Troop 267

In October 2018, the Roundhouse hosted local Boy Scout Troop 267. The scouts learned to use the welder, CNC Plasma, and wood laser to restore the Lincoln Highway marker, which is on display at the Donner State Park Museum. The original marker was one of 2,437 erected across the country by Boy Scouts in 1928. It was an honor to partner with the Troop and Sierra State Parks Foundation.

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.®” The Scouting organization is composed of more than 1 million youth members between the ages of 5 and 21 and more than 628,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories.

Boy Scout Troop 267 is a Truckee North Tahoe Troop that practices the "boy-led" philosophy – the Scouts take responsibility for planning meetings, activities, and outings. The Scouts are assisted by the Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmasters (trained adult leaders), Patrol Leaders, and Merit Badge Counselors, who all offer guidance and teach skills. The Troop Committee consists of parent volunteers who meet monthly to handle troop administration and support leaders in delivering quality programming.