Help me give my students the real lessons of fighting the pandemic, as protective gear runs low, and we turn plastic dividers into face shields for medical workers, in partnership with clinicians, researchers, designers and makers.
Our students are creative, imaginative, and curious, and in many cases will be the first in their families to attend college. At our school students are engaged intellectually and nurtured emotionally. They rise to the level of rigor, and by senior year are reading college-level texts, writing college-level papers, and engaging in academic discourse where depth and complexity are the norm.
Alongside the traditional academics that will carry them through college, our urban scholars are eager to learn high tech skills to express their genius, and invent the future.
My Project
I am a technology teacher in Boston, and through distance-learning, my students and I are joining the fights against the pandemic.
Makers are partnering with doctors, researchers, and designers to prototype, distribute and scale protective gear that keeps medical workers safe as they fight COVID 19.
Face shields to protect workers from infection are in short supply, and so is the plastic to manufacture them. The plastic dividers we ask for in our project are the favorite substitute of clinicians on the front line, for their sturdy build and clear optics. We combine 3d printing and laser cut designs with this ready-made shield material to help protect workers from infection, as mass-market supplies run low.
Students will join the fight through distance learning, in real-world project based learning, of how to help in a crisis through collaboration, reflection, and redesign.
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