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    Extra Credit: Save the World

    By Posted on 8.22.2008 21 Comments

    Meet Jennifer Daftari’s fifth-grade class at Jay Elementary School in Jay, Oklahoma. They don’t know it yet, but they’re going to save the world. I got an e-mail not long ago from Ms. Daftari in which she made a compelling (and ego-satisfying) case that her students are PopSci’s greatest fans. Every month when she announces the arrival of a new issue, she wrote, “they wildly applaud, sitting on the edge of their seats to see what new ideas, technology and inventions their eyes will behold. You and your staff are ‘rock stars’ to my students.”

    3.20.2008 at 08:48pm - Comment by Samantha

    I am proud to say I was once one of Mrs.Daftari's fifth grade students, and I am currently attending Northeastern State University. It is amazing the ideas fifth graders can come up with. I think everyone could learn something from children if people would listen and really think about what they are saying and not pass it off as childish jibber jabber. I have always tried to keep my imagination open (I believe great inventions and other things have and can come from what may have started as some sort of silly thought in a daydream), and not think I have to be serious about everything all the time...it is like the, I believe it is a Cheez It commercial where the little girl explains how they get all that cheese in one square, how many adults do you think would think of that. No, it may not be the real way it happens, but it is pretty cool to imagine it that way and makes life a little more fun. To Mrs.Daftari, I thank you for being a part of what makes me the way I am. To Popular Science, I think it is wonderful that you are trying to get children more involved and opening their minds up to science, it is a great thing. Samantha Morrison



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