(ELIZABETHTOWN, KY) – Students in an engineering class at Elizabethtown High School (Elizabethtown Independent) aren’t just learning skills to help them in their future careers; they are creating projects to benefit their community. So far, they have created a lake-cleaning robot, an irrigation system for a community garden and a power bench where people can peddle to charge their devices.
Missy Mills, an engineering teacher at Elizabethtown High School, has helped her students get more involved in the community by making different projects each year, while improving their previous years’ projects. She said her engineering class is a great place for students to experience vibrant learning.
“Engineering is like the perfect example of project-based learning,” Mills said. “We do real-life projects, and our community knows that because they see it.”…