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Buying a book takes twist at Queen Creek’s Desert Mountain Elementary

Students at Desert Mountain Elementary voted to install a book vending machine on campus.

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Students at Desert Mountain Elementary have a book vending machine thanks to a program that allows them to have a say in the school’s budget.

Last year, DME students in the Lead Out Loud Club voted to use their participatory budget to offer fellow students a book vending machine for their campus. The student body gave the idea a thumbs up.

Through participatory budgeting, students learn civic responsibility and how to think beyond themselves.

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