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Walker-Grant 7th grader Melanie
Johnson with her CTE teacher,
Jovan Ampey. Johnson won an
Oculus Quest 2 for her award
-winning digital ci zenship project.
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Walker Grant students completed an innovative new
digital citizenship curriculum in February. Led by teacher
Natalie Hornung, the program awarded 3 Oculus Quest
Virtual reality sets, headphones, more than 50 science
experiments and t-shirts to the students who created
a project illustrating the digital citizen concepts they
learned.
"The excitement of the kids as they received the many
generous gifts provided by SimVentions, Gemini 3 Group
and Fredericksburg Parent and Family, was such a great
way to head into Spring Break," says Hornung.
The class covered media balance and well-being, privacy
and security, digital footprint and identity, relationships
and communication, cyberbullying, digital drama and hate
speech, and news and media literacy. Sandy Gillenwater,
Director of Community Outreach for City Schools, Mr.
Caliri, from SimVentions, Mr. Blakemore from Gemini 3
Group and Mrs. Trask from Fredericksburg Parent and
Family served as guest judges.
"I was so impressed by the
content of the projects," says
Trask. "I learned some things
I didn't know and especially
enjoyed the digital drama
powerpoint presentation and
the newscast video project."
1ST PLACE WINNERS
Grade 6 - Annie Vasquez
Grade 7 - Melanie Johnson
Grade 8 - Mackenzie McAllister
Fredericksburg Parent was proud to support our middle
school children as they navigate the digital world and
learn how to find and use responsible news sources.
2nd, 3rd place winners and honorable mentions are listed
online at www.FredericksburgParent.net.
Walker Grant Students
Win Oculus Quest
VR Goggles for Digital
Citizenship Projects
