Patti White

White's class at Morningside Elementary School in partnership with the Utah Department of Transportation and the Salt Lake City Sustainable Division, will develop a demonstration elementary education program that informs and inspires participants to make smart transportation choices. The "Pathways to School" project will promote critical thinking skills, teaching students to value different modes of transportation such as riding bikes, walking, taking the bus, and car-pooling to school. It will also help students and families examine ways to save money, stay fit by commuting to school by bicycle or walking, and creating and planning routes with the bus driver. The project will be tested on White's 30 students before being rolled out to the Salt Lake School District to pilot, with the ultimate hope of introducing the program to the state and across the country. White lives in Salt Lake City.