Summary Of Kids Design Glass By Adora Svitak

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Kids won’t accept their limits, but that's okay because they have the potential to change the world.
Most people think that kids are “Childish” or “Chaotic” Or even “Terrible at coming up with plausible ideas” But, Adora Svitak begs to differ. She states that even kids can come up with ground-breaking ideas. And to be honest, she kinda convinced me.
Adora states that Washington has a program called “Kids Design Glass” where kids come up with silly ideas that glass blowers make. I think this is really important because this add to the “kids don’t accept their limits” thing that I put at the beginning of my essay. This is not accepting limits because kids don’t think about how hard it would be to make. They just think about how cool it would

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