So, they launched a pilot project at one middle school.

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Ms Mather created the volcano, which uses LEDs and a small text display to explain what happens when one erupts, for a school geography project (for which she won a commendation).

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One high-school math assignment involved a coloring project.

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Each state had one public and one private school chosen to participate, but as the VOTES Project received more media attention, other schools contacted Shea to participate.

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Helen Mason, project manager for Southampton Studio School, said one of its "key qualities" would be small class sizes.

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Bryntirion School in Bridgend are one of the schools taking part in the Tyfu Orchards project.

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At Burns Middle School in Mobile, Principal John Adams has his teachers assign at least one digital project that requires Internet use per quarter.

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The job means that one is daily attending - in the most seemingly innocent moments, when responding to a school project or appraising a Lego airport - to the casting of foundations no less sensitive and load-bearing than those of a skyscraper.

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On one of many law school study breaks at a downtown bakery, Ekster found inspiration for his next project.

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