Kindergartners celebrate their design ideas at Civic Pavilion

Details from the Roosevelt School’s Affordable Housing Complex with Many Amenities show the students’ visions of a new neighborhood, while incorporating existing elements from their school community. Their school’s existing park benches and little free libraries were front and center in their model (image credit: Max Schochet).

Higginson School students share their proposal, The Bully Free Castle, a place where everyone is welcome, differences are celebrated, and there is a community of kindness. Students, age 5-6, prepared a speech and read to the crowd (image credit: Max Schochet).

Students from East Boston Early Education Center took inspiration from Boston landmarks, incorporating them into their designs and modeling ways for families to get to each of Boston’s many fun activities in an easier way (image credit: Max Schochet).

Hundreds of visitors, from kindergarten students to adults, stopped by the exhibition throughout the week and shared their thoughts. A fellow kindergartener shared their thoughts on the models on display and read others’ comments (image credit: Max Schochet).

Students visited the space for the Our Boston: Voices from Kindergarten exhibition, sharing their own projects and viewing other classrooms’ work with their peers (image credit: Max Schochet).

Umana School students shared their Our East Boston project, depicting their neighborhood as a place with colorful homes for everyone, more parks with grass and trees, a large store where everything is free, and a large truck to clean up trash and recycling (image credit: Max Schochet).

Students visiting the Our Boston pop up exhibition showed their projects to one another and took delight in the many details of each model (image credit: Max Schochet).

Mason School’s Inclusive Playground shows a more fair and fun Boston, including an inclusive swing for wheelchair users, a store offering free toys for children, and sprinklers to help children facing challenges with swimming (image credit: Max Schochet).

Key developers and supporters of the Our Boston: Voices from Kindergarten program join together and celebrate; Left to right: Carmen Lico (BPS), Marina Boni (BPS), TeeAra Dias (BPS), Taylor Johnson (BSA), Maria Marroquin (CPS), Jason Sachs (Previously BPS, Now Gates Foundation), and Chris Bucco (BPS) (image credit: Max Schochet).

East Boston Early Education Center’s Boston Family Station and Fun House Playground focuses on a place where Boston families can easily and freely access major attractions. It also shares the students’ interest in having more access to green spaces and places to enjoy nature (image credit: Max Schochet).

Boston Public School Teacher Kelsey Macdonald shared about her students’ design process, their ideas, and how they developed their proposal, Natural Disaster Robot. She shared the students’ desire to have a safer Boston and that the robot could help with water from floods or use water to help fires (image credit: Max Schochet).