State Representative Darnell T. Brewer visited Milkovich Middle School

Posted Date: 02/24/2023

State Representative Darnell T. Brewer visited Milkovich Middle School to present Ms. Julie Hogan’s sixth-grade honors class with commendations for their work on correcting map errors in their community. 

Julie Hogan’s social studies class learned to identify the relative location of places using cardinal directions in September. When the class used a Rand McNally road map for the lessons, the students noticed the Maple Heights City School District school buildings were never updated. So, they reached out to the cartography company. The students sent the company the names, addresses, and the latitude and longitude of each school building.“Using a photocopy of the map's portion covering Maple Heights, Ohio, the students indicated which schools are no longer in the locations that appear on the map.

They also provided a spreadsheet with the names of our current schools, addresses, and GPS coordinates,” said Hogan. “The students were excited to share this with Mr. Guy Johnson at GM Johnson Maps.” “So, people won’t make the same mistake, and they’ll actually have a map that actually is accurate to now because a lot of changes can happen in a couple of years,” said sixth grader Micháel Davis. State Representative Brewer and Maple Heights City Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Charlie Keenan spoke at the small ceremony, which honored the students' hard work and advised them to continue speaking up for themselves and their community.