Students from the high school Diversity Club spent time during the final week of Women’s History Month giving second graders a history lesson on some of world’s most famous women.

“I think it’s great for the older kids to come down and be role models for the younger kids, but also for the younger kids to see, this is what I aspire to do and I’m going to get to this point someday,” said second grade teacher Sydney Cipriano.

“I’m really excited they came and talked about Women’s History Month. I like that the Diversity Club chose topics and inventions that can really relate to these children.”

Nicole Charriez, adviser for the Diversity Club, said “I asked them what they would like to do for Women’s History Month, They said they wanted to work with WES. We’re hoping to work with WES in the future

Second graders were called to the front of the room to select on the front board an invention created by women or a photo of a famous woman, and read a sentence on each of them. The inventors included Ruth Wakefield’s chocolate chip cookies and Ruth Handler’s Barbie dolls, and the photos featured Princess Diana and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

“I learned women can be presidents,” said second grader Jonathan Russo. “I enjoyed having them teach us.”

Students were given a list of clues to guess famous women such as Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic woman selected to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following the presentation, the second graders participated in group activities with the high school students – a memory game, women’s history craft, or coloring their favorite inventor or influential woman.

“It’s important because we need to show the importance of women’s history and let the kids know about these women,” said sophomore Lyla Kern. “It’s really cool to see how much they already know and how much we can teach them.”

Freshman Jaimy Harvey added of the second graders, “I had a lot of fun. They’re so funny.”

Harvey’s sister Oleah was one of the second graders participating.

“It was fun,” she said.