There is a saying that “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure.”
This could never be truer than when our Weedsport fourth graders partook in a diorama project, wherein shoe and boot boxes that were no longer needed were called upon to be upcycled as the structural use for interactive colonial village shops.
The best part about these shops, other than the fact that our children learned and had a wonderful time engaging in this project, was the fact that each shop was made to be interactive with the help of the folks within the MakerSpace of Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES. Those people are instructional technology integration specialists Jonathan Schillace and Karen Schuab, and technical specialist Jessica Gable.
Of everyone’s hard work, the fourth grade team told me, “By collaborating with these folks, they…
