Providing Comfort to Cancer Patients and Survivors
Making a difference - CPP Middle School Library Makerspace Activity
CPPMS teachers Alyssa Page and Patty Carozza, both breast cancer survivors, came up with a great idea to support student creativity and comfort cancer patients and survivors. During their free time, Patty and Alyssa collected rocks which they painted pink, magenta, and white. At school, they met with the librarians, Donna Cornell and June Keuhn, to see if they could make this a Makerspace activity for their students. The teachers ended up choosing to bring their classes in to decorate rocks which will be delivered to cancer patients at the Corning Cancer Center. In addition to this, the staff at the middle school generously donated funds to help patients who can not afford gas or a means of transportation to get to their treatments.
The bonus rocks were left out for other students to decorate.