The kids have learned from their failures and mistakes.
“My first year of doing it was in first grade,” “We had to fail a lot in it. We had to fail to succeed.”
“It’s really magical,” “You have to persevere because you might use materials and then look at the criteria and realize that you can’t use that.”
“This really does teach perseverance and grit,” said Kim Anthony, K-8 curriculum executive director for the school district. “Never giving up, things don’t work the first time, you have to continue to work and mistakes are a way to learn. It’s simply just that way to get to success.”
Project Lead The Way encourages students to think about careers in kindergarten.
Both students said they would like to be engineers.
