When Faith Metze was asked last year to choose a Passion Project for her gifted program at Prairiewood Elementary School, the decision was easy based on her volunteer experience with disabled students in the school’s adaptive physical education classes. The then fifth-grader noticed a need for playground equipment that would better suit her new friends, […]
Raising money for PADS and recycling when possible were the semester goals of Northwood Middle School’s Challenge Corps students. For community outreach, students made recycled items to sell. Projects included a lamp made from old encyclopedias, a bookshelf from donated wood and old encyclopedias, and improved traffic signs for better safety and flow on campus. […]
Thirteen D-200 students from the Challenge Corps teams at Woodstock North High School and Northwood Middle School presented their hydro-dynamic ideas to the Illinois Lakes Management Association’s conference April 4 at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Crystal Lake. Their alternative energy solutions generated power by using existing rainwater runoff areas not being utilized. One […]
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