'Lily pad' project turns kids into superheroes

Nina Selipsky • Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>'Lily pad' project turns kids into superheroes</h1>
                <h2><p>With the help of Auburn Riverside High School students, kids are transforming from hospital patients into their favorite superheroes, movie characters and food items. In the high school's wood shop and art classes, over a dozen students work on "lily pads" to be placed as seats</p></h2>
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            <p>With the help of Auburn Riverside High School students, kids are transforming from hospital patients into their favorite superheroes, movie characters and food items. In the high school's wood shop and art classes, over a dozen students work on "lily pads" to be placed as seats on the base of IV poles at local hospitals, <a href="http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/07/16/lily-pad-project-nick-konkler/30232677/?ref=avalancheghost.one">reports King 5</a>. The designs range from Captain America, to Frozen's Olaf the Snowman, to a pink sprinkled doughnut, and then the patients and their imaginations take it from there. The idea came from a 17-year-old cancer patient, Nick Konkler, who wanted to brighten the hospital experience. He died before the first pads were created, but friends say it was typical that he was thinking of others' comfort.</p>
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With the help of Auburn Riverside High School students, kids are transforming from hospital patients into their favorite superheroes, movie characters and food items. In the high school's wood shop and art classes, over a dozen students work on "lily pads" to be placed as seats on the base of IV poles at local hospitals, reports King 5. The designs range from Captain America, to Frozen's Olaf the Snowman, to a pink sprinkled doughnut, and then the patients and their imaginations take it from there. The idea came from a 17-year-old cancer patient, Nick Konkler, who wanted to brighten the hospital experience. He died before the first pads were created, but friends say it was typical that he was thinking of others' comfort.

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By Nina Selipsky

Nina Selipsky is an editorial intern at Crosscut. She is a senior at Lakeside School in Seattle, where she is an editor and writer for the school newspaper. Nina spent last summer working with a non-p