<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>María also integrated some creative workshops related to skateboarding into her program -&nbsp; making a batik workshop, a personalized sticker workshop and showing some videos of girls skateboarding as an inspiration before starting the main program. These creative workshops took place at the Bleiberger Fabrik in Aachen.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Despite times being challenging and difficult due to Covid-19 pandemic, she made it to adapt her program to the situation. For that she had to make some changes like placing the whole program a bit later than she&nbsp; thought; It turned to be an autumn - winter program from September until December instead of Summer, in the hope that the situation and guidelines got better with the time.&nbsp; Apart from adopting basic sanitary measures such as wearing masks and gloves, keeping the safe distance and having antibacterial at the sessions and using a broom stick to hold on instead of touching the participants, she also integrated the guidelines came out of the Goodpush webinar about safe skate projects during the pandemic.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

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<p><span><span><span><span><em><span>“We decided to make some videos in the meantime for the girls so they can practice at home or find a spot and practice there. We are also spot-checking and making videos. That was helpful and inspiring for them for sure.”</span></em></span></span></span></span></p>
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