GMC students plant pinwheels for International Peace Day
Students gather behind the large peace sign made of their individual pinwheels and celebrate International Peace Day. CONTRIBUTED
Students learn about the definition of peace and created designs that represented what peace means to them on each pinwheel. CONTRIBUTED
About 375 pinwheels make up the peace sign. CONTRIBUTED
On Sept. 21, Georgia Military College Preparatory School of Milledgeville was part of an international art and literacy project, Pinwheels for Peace.
According to a GMC press release, Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan, of Coconut Creek, Fla., as a way for students to express their feelings about what is going on in t…