John F. Kennedy School Teams Up with Level Up Village to Launch New Innovative Global STEAM Course

John F. Kennedy Elementary School has launched an innovative global STEAM programming to its after school program in partnership with Level Up Village. JFK is offering Global Doctors: DNA, a program funded by the Windsor Education Foundation. Throughout the course, students have the opportunity to collaborate one-on-one with partner students from one of LUV’s Global Partner organizations in a developing country via video message exchange.

Oletha Walker, the Challenge Resource Teacher at JFK said, “Level Up Village offers a unique opportunity for our students to work collaboratively with students from another part of the world. Students are able to move beyond the traditional walls of the classroom and connect, learn, and put into action the skills we have been teaching them here at JFK. Level Up Village is a wonderful catalyst for our students to test out their 21st Century skills.”

In Global Doctors: DNA, (3rd-5th and 6th-9th grade) students learn to crack the code of life and learn about genetics through a variety of hands-on activities such as extracting DNA from strawberries and building models of the double helix using Twizzlers and gummies. Together with their global partners, students explore whether genetics or environment has a greater impact on leading a healthy life and present their findings.

Level Up Village empowers children to make a difference in the world with courses that promote design thinking and one-to-one collaboration on real-world problems between K-9 students in the U.S. and Global Partner students in 20+ countries. U.S. school partners directly sponsor Global STEAM education in developing countries through LUV’s “take a class, give a class” model.

About Windsor Public Schools:
Windsor Public Schools serves nearly 4,000 students in the community of Windsor, Connecticut, a town located in north central Connecticut between Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts. Windsor Public Schools is comprised of six schools: Oliver Ellsworth School, Poquonock School, Clover Street School, John F. Kennedy School, Sage Park Middle School, and Windsor High School. The mission of Windsor Public Schools is to develop the genius in every child and to create lifelong learners. For more information about the Windsor Board of Education and any of its schools, please visit windsorct.org.

About Level Up Village:
A social impact company based in Old Greenwich, Conn., Level Up Village (LUV) delivers pioneering Global STEAM (STEM + Arts) enrichment courses that promote design thinking and one-to-one collaboration on real-world problems between students from around the world. Launched in 2012, LUV runs courses during school, after-school and in the summer for students at more than 250 U.S. schools, with 40+ Global Partner organizations in more than 20 countries. For more information, visit us at levelupvillage.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter @LevelUpVillage.