Kevin Powers and Adam Shell

Powers’ and Shell’s innovative teaching idea, “Creative Buzz,” focuses on researching, designing, constructing and installing beehives to combat the global decline in the honeybee population. They intend to set up hives at strategic locations across the school district consortium to benefit all of the communities that send students to the New Market Skills Center. They plan to record the entire process by taking pictures, posting on social media and producing a documentary video to submit to the NFFTY Film Festival (National Film Festival for Talented Youth). Through this community-based project, the team hopes to boost the local honeybee population, facilitate collaboration between programs, and encourage community involvement among students.