The Importance Of Study Buddies

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I came up with an idea to help the community kids during the stress that will come with taking state tests. For my Service Learning Project, Maggie, Lindsay, and I are making what we call “Study Buddies”. Study Buddies are going to be a clothespin designed as a person that comes with an inspirational note for kids who are taking test, such as the Park test..We plan on making these items over the week and sending them to the seventh graders at illini during their testing session next week.
I got this idea during the announcement s about state testing as it brought up a project we did at my old school in Oklahoma. We all designed these clothes pins that would hang at the end of a pencil. The idea was that when the kids got stuck on a problem

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