Music and Memory

Briana L - Green Machine Researcher - 6th Grade

The Green Machine researchers have come up with a topic for our research project.  We went through a lot of ideas that didn’t quite work out, but we came to our final idea last practice!  We have known from the beginning of the season that we wanted to do something to help Alzheimer's patients.  Our idea is to design a piano keyboard attachment for a motorized wheelchair. The attachment would be removable for when you don’t want to play the piano.  We chose to do the piano attachment because when people have Alzheimer’s, music is one of the last things that they remember.  The piano is a way for an Alzheimer's patient to use music to reconnect with their fading memories.  We have already started our script which takes a lot of thought.  I can’t wait until we are finished with everything and ready to present!