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Page 18 <strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com <strong>August</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
<strong>Medway</strong> Middle School Students<br />
Win Award for Designing<br />
Adaptive Children’s Toy<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> Superintendent Armand<br />
Pires is pleased to share<br />
that a group of <strong>Medway</strong> Middle<br />
School students won an award<br />
for an adaptive toy they designed<br />
for the annual Project Lead the<br />
Way Children’s Hospital Design<br />
Showcase.<br />
Seventh grade students Kelsea<br />
Anderson, Lily Bariteau,<br />
Ellie Copeland, Caitlin MacNeil,<br />
Emma Reardon and Bella Vallieres<br />
were among 110 students<br />
from 16 Massachusetts schools<br />
that attended Mass STEM Hub’s<br />
second annual design showcase<br />
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Student groups were challenged<br />
to design, test and build<br />
an adaptive toy for a child with<br />
cerebral palsy for the showcase<br />
using their knowledge of the engineering<br />
design process, critical<br />
measurement and mathematical<br />
modeling, computer-aided design<br />
and cerebral palsy. Students<br />
learned about these concepts in<br />
a Design and Modeling Project<br />
Lead the Way (PLTW) unit earlier<br />
this school year.<br />
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At the showcase, students<br />
presented their projects to doctors<br />
and patients of the cerebral<br />
palsy unit of Boston Children’s<br />
Hospital. Gov. Charlie Baker and<br />
Boston Children’s Hospital CEO<br />
Sandra Fenwick also attended<br />
the showcase and met with students<br />
in the competition.<br />
“This showcase was such a<br />
wonderful opportunity for our<br />
students to challenge themselves,”<br />
Superintendent Pires<br />
said. “They created incredibly<br />
thoughtful, useful projects, and<br />
it’s so exciting to see them using<br />
the knowledge they gained this<br />
school year to create something<br />
meaningful.”<br />
Anderson, Copeland, Reardon<br />
and Vallieres were awarded<br />
the Practitioners’ Pick award at<br />
the showcase, which is given to<br />
the project with the most realworld<br />
promise at the competition<br />
each year. The four students built<br />
a multi-functional fidget contraption<br />
for the competition, which<br />
they designed to support cognitive,<br />
sensory and physical therapy<br />
for children ages one through<br />
12 with cerebral palsy. The toy<br />
features matching, spinning, listening<br />
and drawing games for<br />
patients to play independently or<br />
with an occupational therapist.<br />
These features of the toy were<br />
designed to engage the cerebral<br />
palsy patient’s imagination and<br />
senses while strengthening eyehand<br />
coordination.<br />
MacNeil and Bariteau partnered<br />
to build a “Toys for Kids<br />
Fruit Matcher” toy for the showcase<br />
as well, which tasks the patient<br />
with matching a soft, squishy<br />
“fruit” to a cup the same color<br />
as that fruit. MacNeil and Bariteau<br />
designed the toy to provide<br />
cognitive, physical and sensory<br />
therapy to children with cerebral<br />
palsy during occupational therapy,<br />
and to help patients stretch<br />
their finger and hand muscles.<br />
“Project Lead the Way has<br />
done a wonderful job of engaging<br />
our students and making<br />
them excited to learn about<br />
STEM topics,” said <strong>Medway</strong><br />
Middle School Principal Craig<br />
Juelis. “This showcase gave<br />
students an opportunity to see<br />
first-hand how the topics they’re<br />
learning about in class can be applied<br />
to help others and make an<br />
impact in the world, and that’s<br />
truly incredible. Congratulations<br />
to each of these students on a job<br />
well done.”<br />
Project Lead The Way is an<br />
initiative of Mass STEM Hub,<br />
an organization providing access<br />
to and support for premier<br />
STEM programming. Project<br />
Lead The Way aims to make<br />
STEM part of students’ regular<br />
school day. The program offers<br />
K-12 curriculum in engineering,<br />
computer science, and biomedical<br />
science that engages students<br />
in problem-solving, critical<br />
thinking, collaboration and communication.<br />
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