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| What is it? |
Pulaski Community Middle School's Problem Bank is a collection of problems submitted by community members for the purpose of finding solutions through the work of the school's Technology Education department.
When a problem is submitted, it is brought to a group of 7th grade Create & Design students for potential solutions. A student, or group of students, contact the submitter with their ideas, or perhaps for additional information, if needed. Through this process, the students learn to become problem-solvers while also contributing to the community.
PCMS is equipped with a CAD lab for design and modeling of ideas. When a proposed solution is agreeable to the creator of the submission and our "engineer in training," the model is fabricated in one of our two 3D printers or laser cutter. (The laser cutter is temporarily out of service at the moment, however.)
We hope you find this community engagement gratifying, and we thank you for helping us on this venture through your submissions!
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Creating Changemakers
The goal of this project is to develop and weave together a series of experiences that result in our students seeing problems in their lives, communities, and world as solvable, developing the skills to design solutions, practice creating actual authentic solutions and become aware of other young people affecting change in their world. This model has 4 components: |
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Your contributions benefit our students
- Acquiring skill in the Engineer's Design Process - The set of design, making, engineering, and problem solving skills that allow young people to create solutions
- Creating Authentic Solutions - The creation of actual authentic and useful solutions, products, inventions, innovations that benefit self, school, community or world etc. through this work
- Developing an Empowerment Mindset - The potential for our students to find and see problems as “solvable” and view themselves as capable and empowered community members through this work - acquiring of “transferable” skills, mindsets, dispositions
- Becoming Familiar with Powerful Examples - The sharing with students of models of programs that are creating changemakers in order to inspire and inform their work.
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