Problem solvers
Benson High School: Students in an advanced seminar on inventions came up with a portable, automated, solar-powered hydroponic garden that could provide families in sub-Saharan Africa with food. The project is part of a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students will take a prototype to Boston this summer.
Morton Magnet Middle School: Students learned about homelessness and poverty, then conducted a food drive. They used the decision-making process they had learned to figure out the best way to collect canned goods. One class opted to go to a grocery store and collected 400 cans.
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