Gaining Skills to Change the World
One of the things I love most about working within school settings is seeing the excitement, creativity and innovation of young minds. Working as a Foundry Fellow, I have the privilege of telling the stories of the truly amazing work going on within the schools.
Recently, students at Melrose Elementary school were tasked with inventing something that would help their visually impaired classmates to get around their classes. They did it! Creative Melrose students invented shoes that vibrate as you get close to an object! How amazing is that? They worked together wellYou can read more about their endeavors in this Penn Live Article.
What I truly love about this story is that these students are doing more than simply tinkering in a lab. They are gaining skills that could absolutely change our world for the better. It's beautiful to see students learning as well as thinking about the well being of others.
I am looking forward to hearing more about student accomplishments such as this all over the region.
Our students are our future leaders! What they are learning in school today, could put them in position to become inventors that could literally change the world. I'm honored to work for The Foundry where our goal is to build the capacity for 21st Century skills within schools, therefore assisting in shaping he minds of future world changers!