A classroom gift to others

Since September, Edgewood Elementary School fifth-grade students in Lindsey Martin’s class have worked on The Expert Project every Friday in class. This project gave the students the opportunity to research, teach, create and collaborate on a topic of their choice. When choosing topics, the students were asked questions such as: What are you passionate about? How can you make a difference? What can you do/create to make the world awesome? What have you always wanted to know more about? 

A group of six girls agreed on the question: how can we help orphans in Uganda? For the past seven months the girls have created Google presentations, flyers, banners and even recipes they could use to host a yard/bake sale to raise money for the orphans. Overall the girls raised $741. 

The girls are looking forward to presenting their check to a representative from an orphanage in Uganda, and Martin said she couldn’t be prouder of her students for going above and beyond on their project to help make the world a better place for those in need.