Students Work With Meals On Wheels
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: November 23, 2010
MIDLAND-- Some local students are learning a lot more than academics this school year. They're also learning about the importance of helping others.
Students at Carver Center have been working with Meals-On-Wheels to learn a little bit about the homebound seniors they serve meals to five days a week. The students have used that information to create over 500 personalized birthday cards that will now be delivered with their meal on their special day. While the project sounds like a lot of fun, it was something the students are taking very seriously.
"[It took a long time to come up with the idea], because we wanted to put a lot of thought into it and not just slap something down," student Abby Stone told Big 2. "We wanted to make sure that they were to perfection."
The project was part of a program called Destination Imagination. The goal of the program is to help students learn the importance of community involvement through creativity, teamwork and problem solving.
Students at Carver Center have been working with Meals-On-Wheels to learn a little bit about the homebound seniors they serve meals to five days a week. The students have used that information to create over 500 personalized birthday cards that will now be delivered with their meal on their special day. While the project sounds like a lot of fun, it was something the students are taking very seriously.
"[It took a long time to come up with the idea], because we wanted to put a lot of thought into it and not just slap something down," student Abby Stone told Big 2. "We wanted to make sure that they were to perfection."
The project was part of a program called Destination Imagination. The goal of the program is to help students learn the importance of community involvement through creativity, teamwork and problem solving.
