Alexandria Students Send Special Phone Cases to Soldiers in Afghanistan - The Zebra

GW students created thsese telephone holders for usage successful sand. (Photo courtesy ACPS)

ALEXANDRA, VA—Alexandria’s residents are passionate astir giving back. That goes for its students arsenic well. For a people project, students astatine George Washington Middle School made peculiar cases for mobile phones. These cases, sent to American soldiers successful Afghanistan, were designed to assistance them usage their phones successful sand.

Teacher Desiree Michael, who oversaw the project, said her begetter served successful the U.S. Army for implicit 30 years. With her lad successful the Air Force, she understands the value of staying successful touch.

“For our students, creating the Phone Holders for Soldiers task has been a travel successful processing an knowing of The engineering process,” Michael said,” and combining the  4 C’s successful education: captious thinking, creativity, collaboration, and Communication. We added a 5th C – Community Outreach!”

A demo of however a telephone holder works (Photo courtesy ACPS)

The Industrial Technology teacher explained to The Zebra however hard to find a telephone holder sturdy capable to beryllium successful the sand. This prompted the people to plan his prompted her people to plan their ain telephone holder.

An archetypal design, they performed galore tests and tweaks earlier being satisfied with the last result

“I wanted students to beryllium capable to instantly use their learning to thing they each use,” she said. “Almost each students, successful this time and age, person mobile phones oregon immoderate benignant of mobile device.”

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