Help me give my students the experience of designing & creating a dress or outfit made of Duct tape. The fun designs are most desired as they help make their creations bright, beautiful and unique, just like themselves!
My middle school students are creative, determined, and incredibly intelligent, but lack resources and funds to necessarily allow those attributes to be fully demonstrated. In a world that often wants complacency, my students use their imagination to design a world that uses all their senses to be experiential.
Despite our best efforts to protect our students from the negative impacts of Covid-19, it has inevitably been felt through the lack of certain supplies to create their safe world.
In my class, we discuss at length various occupations that they may be interested in pursuing. As their parents have lost their jobs, my students have been looking for ways they could make money; now to help their family and for the future. Living in a world of uncertainty, my students have expressed that this class provides real world application as well as an escape from the realities of the world they currently live in.
My Project
Dress It Up: Stuck at Prom Style is specifically designed to give my students a "leg up" on their competition. The Stuck at Prom Scholarship Program is available to high school students with creativity. Applicants must create and wear an outfit completely made of Duck brand duct tape to a school prom.
Since the pandemic, several parents have lost their jobs and families are looking for a way to find money for their children's post-secondary education.
Duck Tape brand's “Stuck at Prom” scholarship contest awarded $10,000 each to dress and tuxedo category winners. I want my students to have the opportunity to practice in 8th grade what they may be able to accomplish in high school through this contest.
Additionally, through this project, I am introducing my students to fashion design, costume creation, as well as a myriad of various occupations that will not only help them find their strengths and weaknesses in a job market but also within their own home.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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