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[email protected] It may be a small schoo� but big thin� are happening at Hillsboro CharterAcademy. The school hosted iis Exhibition of Leaming Nov. 10, when students of all grade levels shared projects with the Hills­ boro community. Each class took on proj­ ects to make the curriculum come to life and then presented the projects and the process behind them. "We try to guide them in certain direc­ tions and gjvethem advice arolUld howthey can make that project more relevant to fu­ ture learning," Principal Mark Wertheimer said. "Real1y what this whole exhibition is about is p� So this isn't your typical sci­ ence fair where you see these polished end products. You see actual kid work." Projects were diverse in topic and ap­ proach. The fifth grade split up into grou� to create a project about baJancing the needs ofone student with the needs ofthe whole. One group tackled'the need of hunger and created a mint dispenser made out of egg cartons that organized the mints by in­ dividual student and al1otted four mints per student per week This presented a vi­ sual way fur the teacher to know who had gotten mints and prevented students from being distracted because of hunger. The first and second grade put on folk dancing performances to share local his­ tory and made historic toys, which were then sold at the event Students presented projects in a "TED-talk" style and took questions from members ofthe communizy. Others led ac­ tivities like walking attendees through using flight simulators and othertechnolo-­ gies in the Innovation Lab. Wertheimer said the students' willing­ ness and eagerness to speak to strangers about what they'd learned was a large com­ ponent ofthe event and Hillsboro Charter Academy's year-long work. "One of the components we have here is this ability to communicate as far as what they're learning and how they're doing things. Looking at a Jot of the 21st century skills which involve that network­ ing ability," Wertheimer said. "They're doing a lot of collaborative work, they de­ velop projects on their own, they have to learn how togive' and take in that contcit" · ·

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