Dignity Museum teaches Butler High students about homelessness
Butler High School students toured the Dignity Museum, a mobile museum in a shipping container that visited campus on Oct. 23. The museum educates people about homelessness and breaks down the stereotypes around people who struggle with it.
Students also participated in activities and learned about data science as a possible career choice. They learned that data science can be a key to finding solutions for many of the world’s problems, including homelessness or a lack of stable housing, which affects nearly 5,500 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students.
“We don't know what we don't know, and we can't dream about something we haven’t experienced,” said Jo Christine Miles, director of the Principal Foundation and Community Relations, which organized the event. “This program is really about exposure to the curriculum and the learning side, exposure to the real world application and exposure to people who are using data in their everyday lives.”
Junior Mira Jaafar also won a scholarship for an essay she wrote about her interest in data science and its use in the field of cancer research.