Dyker Heights students build desk to accommodate classmate’s wheelchair
Using science to give back to a fellow student.
A group of seven eighth graders from I.S. 201, Dyker Heights Intermediate School are drawing inspiration from a classmate for their project for the District 20 STEAM Expo.
The students, with help from science teacher Cindy Scognamillo, have spent the last month building a desk for their classmate, Maria Pizzo, who is wheelchair-bound and struggles to sit in a traditional desk, as part of their expo entry.