Lone Star Elementary School, one of only 14 schools in Texas with the Special Olympics Unified Champion Banner School designation, recently partnered with Project Management Institute to provide specialized training for the campus' UCS leaders about planning and implementing inclusive activities at Lone Star, and beyond. 
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's largest project manager community that seeks to promote project management principles that empower organizations and individuals to work smarter in an ever-changing world.
During the training, Lone Star's UCS leaders spent time working in unified small groups to plan, develop, and build a tree house, using guidelines set up by PMI.
"PMI provided valuable support to our Special Olympics Unified Champion School’s mission of bringing together students with and without intellectual disabilities to create accepting school environments," said Lone Star Elementary's UCS Advisor Kelly McCormack. "Our leaders really embraced this training activity, and it only further solidified the importance that working together on a project in which all abilities matter truly makes a difference in the educational journeys of students and the memories that will stay with them for a lifetime."
