Haley Boyd, 10, sat silently at her table in the Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary library Friday waiting for her name to be called.
Whenever HWS librarian Elizabeth Lott called the students at her table, Boyd walked toward a cart chock-full with Makerspace activities, including Legos, K’nex and other hands-on manipulatives. Boyd had her eye on a K’Nex set and quickly sat down to start her project.
“I’m making a thing with eyeballs,” Boyd said. “I like making the different shapes. I also like to build candlesticks or little puppy dogs.”
By next year, Boyd and students from HWS, Sudduth Elementary, Overstreet Elementary and Armstrong Middle School will have classrooms and libraries expanded into Makerspaces thanks to a $120,000 grant Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District received from the Mississippi Department of Education. Each school will…
