Every once in a while I'm seriously wowed by things my students do. I love to have days where I feel like the future of the world is in good hands with the young adults that are sitting in front of me in charge. Today was one of those days. For the past two weeks they've been working on a project to design and build cardboard chairs with no tools, no tape, no staples and be assembled in 5 minutes or less. The chair needed to hold a 125 pound woman with her feet up. That would be me. Some didn't hold me, but most did! They needed to make a schedule, a scale model, a magazine ad, a billboard ad, and assembly instructions. WOW! The creativity and energy that I observed over the past two weeks has been phenomenal. Today was the due date. I got assembly instruction in english and spanish, magazine ads that made me laugh til I cried, chairs with cup holders, chairs that could hold 4 large young men, matching foot stools and only one small bruise from a collapsed chair! The room has been a mess, but it was worth it!
My favorite. With the scale model on top.
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