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The molding supplies will open the door for them to create professional-quality prototypes, develop adaptive tools for partners like our special education department and local therapists, and explore how their ideas can be both financially sustainable and socially impactful. Your support helps students understand how budgeting, cost analysis, and product design connect to real careers while also showing them that innovation can be rooted in compassion. 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This project is helping them use their creativity and technical skills with purpose—designing weighted items, sensory tools, tactile objects, and murals that are made with real children and real needs in mind. They are discovering how empathy grows when you listen closely, ask questions, and create something that genuinely helps another person. Your guidance has given our students the opportunity to connect art, innovation, and compassion in meaningful ways. 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By learning about the important work you do and creating educational and uplifting materials for the children and families you serve, our students are growing in empathy, confidence, and purpose. They are discovering that their artwork, their design choices, and their attention to detail truly matter when they are made in service of others. Thank you for opening the door for them to learn, to care deeply, and to create something that makes a difference. 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Through this project students have created some many cool and interesting things including sensory objects and bin, keychains created using their own artwork, stuffed animals, 360 experiences and products featuring their own photographs. All the students were challenged to learn about different topics in the Ozarks, including plants, animal and places. What they created was based what they felt inspired by. 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In order to bring their vision to life, they had to create announcements and emails, generate flyers, speak to adults and students and create the final products. Along they way they communicated with our community partners and educated others about our local foster care system and its needs. 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