From News 8:
Recent Bridgeport high school graduates looked to the skies on Monday for their own creation — an airplane they spent three years building.
The Bassick High School students made the plane in their shop class. Monday, they watched as it took off from Sikorsky Memorial Airport.
“I’m dyslexic, so I didn’t think this was going to be that big for me, and it is,” said Tiany Perez, a recent graduate.
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would be great if they could put the plane on a truck and baaasick kids could march with it in a 2025 barnum parade.
What an experience to have been (or, be a part of currently.)
To see something develop from raw materials, through careful understanding of science and design, then following instructions with exact measurements through to assembling an object that becomes airworthy was impressive. Thank you Channel 8 for telling us about what was going in shop class recently. Provide a place, basic resources, educators with vision and skills, and others who care? It becomes difficult not to learn or participate. Time will tell.