Students at Clark Street Community School, a public charter school in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District, enlisted music to assist the memories of older adults, according to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal. It was part of a music and memory seminar — a nine-week class, which ended last week.

As part of the seminar, the students interviewed some residents at Heritage Senior Living and at Sage Meadow senior living community in Middleton, to learn about their tastes in music so they could put songs on a player for them.

Clark Street junior Binta Jammeh said she has family members with dementia so she is glad she can use what she learned in school to help others.

“It’s really cool to see their smiles when they hear the music,” junior Chloe Gallenbeck said.

Read the full story at the Wisconsin State Journal.