Davies

Collaboration Celebrations!

"This is the best field trip I've ever been on!!" wrote multiple students in their reflections of working with high school students at Davies Career and Tech.

Sixty three Jamestown Sixth Graders spent the day at Davies, working in collaboration with high school leaders. The Davies students led them through expereinces in soldering their circuit boards. Sixth graders were buoyed by the encouragement and support that the high schoolers gave them, as they told them "Wow, you are so good at this." "No problem, we can fix that."

Davies students were able to dispel some of their previously expressed notions of what Jamestown residents were, as they built understanding around coding, robotics, and electronics.

One clear result of this collaboration was a broader sense of what community can be in the state of RI.

It took lots of work, flexibility, and detailed coordination, but was a huge success!!

Many thanks to all of the Davies experts--students and teachers who made this happen, as well as my teaching team at Lawn Avenue.

We are looking to expand next year and hope to continue to share the resources of Davies, and also have them use the resources of ocean access that Jamestown can offer.