Middle School Students Envision Their 'Person of the Year' Cover

“This is the coolest project I do,” says 7th Grade English Language Arts teacher Carla Axt-Pilon.

Each year around this time, Carla Axt-Pilon, a 7th Grade English Language Arts teacher at Granger Middle School in Aurora, Ill., encourages her students to think big. Really big.

She asks them to create a Time magazine cover illustration, at least 20 years into the future, that presents why they might be voted “Person of the Year.” Students are provided with the guidance of connecting their imagined achievements to someone real and this year, Trisha Desai, who would like to win the POY honor in 2036 for creating a new, technology-driven program that links service dogs with their owners, found esoteric inspiration.

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