KILLINGTON — Sixth graders found a creative, entrepreneurial way to keep their playground balls from disappearing down the side banks and landing in nearby creeks: start a business and raise money for a net.
Gaga happens to be one of the favorite games on the playground at Killington Elementary: A ball is kicked around an octagonal or hexagonal pen in an effort to tag other players from the knee down, though balls occasionally fly out of the ring and into the woods.
So the sixth-graders, in their final year at the school, decided to create a school store, stocked with original crafts from their class makerspace as a way to leave their mark on a school they said feels like a second home.
Together with sixth-grade teacher Amy Simonds and their laser-cutter Cricut machines, the students set to work in their new makerspace, an idea they credited…
