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In the past, PacTrans has reported on a recently completed, three-year safety education project that sought to raise teen awareness to some of the most common transportation safety issues facing this country. This past fall, the National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT), housed at PacTrans Consortium Partner, University of Idaho, funded an extension of that project and sent an educator into twelve classrooms (grades 1 – 8) to teach about traffic safety. Each lessons consisted of 15 minutes of traffic safety education/discussion, then 20 minutes were allocated to art creation. Key ideas and easy-to-remember phrases such as “Stop, Look and Listen,” “Look Left, Right, Left Again” “Be Safe, Be Seen” “It Can Wait!” were taught.

Over 200 pieces of student art was created and then displayed at NIATT. Leaders from the University, City and Schools were invited to attend a reception in February to celebrate and highlight the students’ work. Approximately forty-five people attended the reception (nineteen students, twenty-four adults). Fifteen students were chosen by NIATT students for exceptional art that portrayed clearly the aspects of safety that were taught during in-classroom instruction.

PacTrans is unbelievably proud of the impact that this safety education project has generated across the Pacific Northwest. If you would like to learn more about this particular outcome or to see more of these students’ exception art pieces, see the info sheet here.