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Age doesn’t matter. Grade doesn’t matter. Topic doesn’t matter. What does matter in The Pitsco Education Project contest is imagination and creativity.
Those two elements shone through in the winning entries from Jazmin Sanchez, a fourth-grade Mission student from Osceola, Florida (non-video category;
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view slides).
Announced as winners on February 1, 2010, the students received gift certificates, and their teachers/classrooms received still and video cameras, respectively
- Sanchez’s winning entry is a colorful and informative PowerPoint presentation detailing what she learned at the Plants Mission. Plant facts on roots, stems, and leaves lead into detailed information and photos of Sanchez’s avocado plant. “Jazmin especially enjoyed the Plants Mission because it allowed her to start from a seed and experience the entire cycle of her avocado’s growth into a tree,” said Facilitator Lorraine Ambrose of Pleasant Hill Elementary School. “We now have many plants growing throughout the lab, including carrots, radishes, potatoes, beets, onions, more avocadoes, and even marigolds that will be transplanted to our school’s peace garden in the spring.”
- Custeau and Barker planned and built a project at the Computer Graphics & Animation Module. Following Facilitator Johnny Hughes’ instructions, the LBC Middle School students got creative and added a couple characters to their animation. In their written summary of the project, the students described the setting and circumstances of their video animation. “This movie takes place in an Alaska town where Joker has a secret base. Bumble Bee is just cruising around and all of a sudden he senses something evil, which is the Joker, so he transforms into his robot self . . .”
Imagination and creativity at their best! Congratulations to the winners and to all students/teachers who participated in The Pitsco Education Project contest.
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