Article Students Empowered Through Tech Club
Meg Ormiston
Embracing innovation during difficult times was child’s play for the Lincoln Tech Club team as they embraced innovation throughout the challenging school year of 2020-21. This dedicated team of fourth and fifth graders persevered through remote learning, pivoted during hybrid learning, managed through quarantine, and celebrated masked in-person fun as a student-led Tech Club. Their creativity and can-do spirit serve as an inspiration for all of us. This mighty group tackled every challenge with creative problem solving following a clear vision that their work was helping everyone. Nine- and ten-year-olds are our future leaders for innovation using all types of technology tools from Zoom chats, green screen videos, editing, scriptwriting, virtual interviews, weekly news shows, on-location filming, and much more. As one of the teacher sponsors of this group, I was the behind-the-scenes support and supervisor, but the students were empowered to do the planning, visioning, leading, and organizing. Along this journey, this group taught me so many technology tools and creative solutions to the complicated daily changes from the student perspective. These students are the rock stars, I just made 60
