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Blind date (Kittipak Tantichot (This year (UNBREAKABLE SPIRIT (Even in the…

- - - - myself
      - seven other students
      - we also decided to introduce skills
        
        critical thinking.
        
        such as problem solving
    - - many of the students were extremely shy
    - - only worked with students
        
        sixth grades.
        
        in the fifth
    - - we were also teaching first graders
    - - they began to smile and open up.
    - - we developed the students’
        
        programming skills
        
        logical thinking
        
        For example
        
        we played a game where we taught seven words related to seven morning routines
        
        Afterwards
        
        we tried to trick the students by reading the words to them in the wrong order.
        
        They corrected us and then described their morning routine chronologically.
        
        MAPPING THE SKYTRAIN
        
        some of the students on an earlier visit who wanted to know what the BTS Skytrain system looked like
        
        Most of the students rely on an adult to guide them when they travel
        
        So I designed a 3D printed Braille map of the BTS system
        
        They loved the sound the plastic made when they ran their fingers across it.
        
        We taught them
        
        how to use the map
        
        how the system of the BTS trains works
        
        They dragging their fingers along the track as they read the train stations.
        
        My favorite memory was of Pong
        
        Pong
        
        a sixth-grade student,
        
        who would run his fingers across the Braille
        
        Throughout the class
        
        he’d poke me and whisper the station’s name into my ear
        
        a big smile would break out across his face
        
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      - For another activity
        
        we had the students “program” each other
        
        We split them into two teams
        
        the Scientists
        
        the Robots
        
        The Scientists directed the Robots to an objective through a set of commands
        
        forward
        
        backwards
        
        left
        
        right
        
        diagonal and jump
        
        in order to find a hidden object
        
        a water bottle.
        
        After we’d explained the rules
        
        they all jumped up from their seats in a disorderly way, excited to begin.
        
        But it was a productive kind of chaos
        
        one of joy and happiness.
        
        The Scientist team grabbed the bottle and hid it around a corner
        
        Initially
        
        I wasn’t sure if they were trying to guide their friends to the bottle or make them walk around in circles.
        
        However
        
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    - - but the students at this school are the strongest kids that I’ve ever met and probably will ever meet.
      - Their energy and ability to overcome their challenges never fail to impress me.
      - Not to be clichéd
      - They have an unbreakable will to fight, live and succeed.
      - Even in the classes we didn’t teach, the students remembered our voices.
        
        On the last day
        
        some were yelling our names and asking us when we’d come back to teach them again.
        
        It warmed my heart and it was a pleasure to get to know every one of them