Alethea Setser

2017
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Laurel Hill Primary School

Setser’s innovative teaching idea, “#StopBioTime,” focuses on utilizing subjects related to technology, art, science, engineering, and creativity to create stop motion animation projects. The Voya grant will enable students to create a stop motion green screen biography movie based on a biography of their choosing, which they will then share on the school’s internal classroom site, as well as the school’s public blog and social media accounts. Setser believes that by giving students the freedom to independently study and write about a topic of their choosing, and then to subsequently engineer a project of their very own, they will have the opportunity to develop their verbal, scientific, analytical, and creative skills, while connecting with students and peers beyond their own classroom via social media.