About the Project

Why not teach middle school kids to rebuild old, broken bikes? And why not provide a way for them to donate the bikes to people who really need them?

If, while the kids were learning mechanical and technical skills, they were developing a social conscience and understanding the meaning of the environmental call to “reduce, resue, recycle,” all the better! 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• students experience the pride and satisfaction of repairing things that are broken. They reduce their need for new products and equipment when they know how to maintain and repair what they have.
• Students reuse discarded donated bike parts to build a bicycle for their own use or to give to someone else.
• Students recycle parts that are headed for the landfill into usable bicycles they can be proud to own, or proud to donate.

Middle school counselor Steve Davis started the bicycle project in a janitor’s closet with $5,000 in tools he purchased with his own money. Now a large classroom brims with tools, bikes, parts, and exuberant students. The Bicycle Recycle Project has become the most popular elective class at Seven Hills.

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