Andre Boudreaux

This shade structure sits at the end of a short path on the edge of Galveston Bay, and will be used by the Texas Parks and Wildlife environmental education program. This program focuses on educating middle and high school students in the Galveston/Houston region about the environmental issues effecting the local ecology. Students will use the shade pavilion for an orientation talk before they begin a guided bay walk. In the summer, the park offers bay walks on weekends, when the pavilion will also be utilized by the public at large. Students designed a gabion wall filled with recycled concrete. The wall includes small slots and tubes to accommodate native lizards, pollinators, and other tiny critters found in this coastal environment..