Crushing It! Cane Bay Cares’ Operation Inspire Students Excel at Project-Based Learning
Learning by doing, an approach also known as project-based learning, is a core tenet of the Cane Bay Cares after-school initiative Operation Inspire (OI).
And St. Croix students from the OI program are proving just how effective the approach can be when it comes to picking up concepts in environmental conservation, modern agriculture, nutrition, literature and more.
To put it simply, these students are — crushing it!
During a year-end culminating event, OI students from the Eulalie Rivera K-8, Ricardo Richards Elementary and Pearl B. Larsen K-8 Schools showcased how much they learned through the projects they’d completed within the 2021-2022 school year.
There were second and third graders who’d built a trashcan out of plastic bottles while learning about ways to save our earth through recycling. Fifth and sixth graders had built hydroponic farms as they explored the pros and cons of planting without soil. And then there were the kindergarteners who identified the characters, settings, conflicts, and solutions in popular stories from American literature.
But what was even more impressive than the projects themselves was how the students stood before familiar faces, strangers, and camera lenses to proudly, and bravely, present all the work they’d done.
Cane Bay Cares, and its parent company Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP, are extremely proud to witness the progress of these incredible young people. We are also grateful to the instructors from the Virgin Islands Department of Education who work tirelessly after hours to guide and empower these students on their journey.
Congratulations on a job well done!
Cane Bay Cares is a service initiative of St. Croix-based Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP. Cane Bay Cares was established after three strong hurricanes, including two Category 5 storms, Irma and Maria, caused much damage to St. Croix during September 2017. The initiative has a goal of providing relief to the citizens of St. Croix. To make this possible, we have partnered with St. Croix Foundation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit that was established in 1990. All donations to Cane Bay Cares are donations to St. Croix Foundation and are 100% tax deductible.
Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP was formed in June 2009 and founded by internationally experienced business executives with many years of experience in the financial services industry. Focusing our efforts primarily in the financial services industry, our management consulting practice specializes in providing services to clients in need of sophisticated risk management models, debt collections organizations which require liquidation models and analytics, and portfolio management companies desiring a variety of services.
Since 1990, St. Croix Foundation for Community Development has been advancing holistic community development as a pathway to economic prosperity, self-sufficiency, and sustainability. Established in the wake of Hurricane Hugo, today the Foundation is one of the premier place-based philanthropic leaders in the Virgin Islands. Having served as the conduit of over $37 million private and public sector dollars invested into the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Foundation’s impact has netted national recognition in almost every priority area – from economic development and community revitalization to public health, education reform, and nonprofit development. Our mission is to encourage greater philanthropic activity, to marshal resources, and to act as a catalyst to benefit the people of the Virgin Islands.