Inventors featured at annual wax museum event
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Easton Bell portrays Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Avery Hoperich portrays Beatrice Alexander, the founder of the Alexander Doll Company which revolutionized its industry by creating like-like dolls modeled after celebrities and famous fictional characters. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Azaleigha Gearheart portrays Sarah E. Goode, the inventor of the cabinet bed and the fourth known African American woman to be awarded a patent. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Natalie Hobbs portrays Mary Anderson, who invented the first operational windshield wiper in 1903. (Photos by Morgan Ahart)
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Lexi Six portrays Bette Nesmith Graham, the inventor of liquid paper. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Addison Smith portrays Grace Hopper, a mathematician, computer science pioneer, and US Navy rear admiral who programmed the Mark I computer to calculate weapon firing tables and co-developed the COBOL standardized computer language. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Easton Bell portrays Benjamin Franklin. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Avery Hoperich portrays Beatrice Alexander, the founder of the Alexander Doll Company which revolutionized its industry by creating like-like dolls modeled after celebrities and famous fictional characters. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Azaleigha Gearheart portrays Sarah E. Goode, the inventor of the cabinet bed and the fourth known African American woman to be awarded a patent. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Natalie Hobbs portrays Mary Anderson, who invented the first operational windshield wiper in 1903. (Photos by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Lexi Six portrays Bette Nesmith Graham, the inventor of liquid paper. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
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- Lisbon McKinley Elementary hosted its annual “wax museum” event Friday featuring inventors. Addison Smith portrays Grace Hopper, a mathematician, computer science pioneer, and US Navy rear admiral who programmed the Mark I computer to calculate weapon firing tables and co-developed the COBOL standardized computer language. (Photo by Morgan Ahart)
The annual event sees third-grade students research and play the roles of historical figures by creating information trifolds and writing, memorizing and delivering first-person speeches about their lives and achievements, complete with costume.
Intervention Specialist Bethany Quetot said the students were able to choose their inventor from a list of options, and they began learning about the inventors and preparing for the wax museum more than a month in advance.
Quetot said that as part of their preparation process, the students read books on their inventor and had model conversations with the Magic School AI Chatbot which would play the role of their chosen inventor and is specially programmed to speak to deliver its responses at a third-grade reading level.