"Our motto is 'See a Need, Fill a Need,' and this is a need that we can fill.
Our solution is to use the website StoryJumper to create books digitally," Bray-Lynn Hopper tells Arkansas Matters.
The seventh- and sixth-graders from Pinkston Middle School in Mountain Home, Ark., are part of the First Lego League robotics team that's advancing to a national competition after winning the state championship last month.
In researching the third-grade reading problem, the team found that kids who don't have adequate reading skills are four times more likely to drop out of school than kids who do, and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems, per a press release.
"We also plan to teach them how to make their own books as well as read books that their peers have created," says Allison Free, another Pinkston seventh-grader.
The team's solution is to use the website StoryJumper to create books digitally.
"We go to the Kindergarten to read them our books; they love having middle school students read to them," Hopper adds.
The team will need to raise more than $20,000 in order to compete in the Western Edge Open in Long Beach, Calif., from May 31 through June 2.
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