Eli Murphy, an 8th-grade student put his skilled trades training to good use by retrofitting a rideable electric toy car for Ollie, a three-year-old Denver boy who experiences significant mobility challenges.
The pilot project, funded by Harbor Freight Tools for Schools, is a great example of the power of kids helping kids through the skilled trades.
Bob Kilmer, the teacher who supervised Eli’s work on the project, is an education advisor for Harbor Freight Tools for Schools.
Bob spent 35 years as a Construction and Architecture teacher at Enumclaw High School in Washington.
He is also a National Board Certified Teacher in career and technical education and a 2017 Grand Prize winner of the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, who has put together a playbook, which you can use to implement a similar project with students at your school.
Bob Kilmer has taught construction, architecture, computer-aided design, math, leadership, welding and physical education.
https://harborfreighttoolsforschools.org/go-ollie-go-skilled-trades-project
Helping other people, helping a charity, or lending a hand, and especially - helping out those many people who NEED some help, even if they don't realize it.... is probably the coolest thing you can do.
None of these are sarcastically used, they are all posted with consummate enthusiasm, I want you to know that, as the Colbert and Stewart one can be easily misunderstood
What a fabulous teacher and caring eighth grader! Thanks for bringing this to light.
ReplyDeleteit is my pleasure
DeleteThat is awesome. Cheers to Eli and Ollie!
ReplyDeleteAnd who's cutting the onions??
oh shoot, I forgot my usual kleenex warning.
DeleteI wish I could find more good news stories, they are pretty rare