Young Team Mikey Member Impresses Us With Her Passion

One of our young members of Team Mikey has helped make her school a whole lot safer. Ashley is a grade 4 student in Toronto, who participated in Project Give Back, “a passion based program designed for elementary students to develop empathy, build character, and ignite community minded citizens.” Elementary school students who take part in this program have to:

• choose a charity
• do research on their chosen organization
• contact the charity to learn more
• create a report
• and present their findings to their class.

One of the goals of Project Give Back is to teach the children how to do project work, from beginning to end.

Ashley has a personal connection to The Mikey Network – her grandfather passed away due to cardiac arrest. Ashley started in October, and continued working on the project right up until her presentation in March.

As part of the project, she choose The Mikey Network as her charity and contacted us all on her own. Ashley came in and met with our Executive Director, Morty Henkle, to learn more about what we do here.

“We hope that all students are as passionate for MIKEY as Ashley is,” said Henkle.

To complete her project, Ashley created a display board and spoke about The Mikey Network in front of her whole class. She also did a demo using a MIKEY automatic external defibrillator, complete with dummy. The whole class paid rapt attention and thought demonstration was pretty cool.

A representative from The Mikey Network and a representative from Project Give Back were also there. They were touched by Ashley’s passion for the organization and impressed by her knowledgeable presentation.

As a result of all of Ashley’s hard work, her school has been presented with their very own MIKEY, on behalf of The Mikey Network.

“The class feels safer because we have one of these in the school,” said one of Ashley’s classmates.

We would like to applaud Ashley, and all students like her, who are working to raise awareness of charitable works and give back to their communities.