DNR’s Sarah Chabaane helps Irmo High School students celebrate their successful trout release this spring.
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Aluminum Can Flowers
Students at Walhalla High School are upcycling aluminum cans into beautiful flowers for Mother’s Day gifts.
Upcycled “Brief-Cases”
Richland County Green Step Mentors are thrilled with their personalized upcycled “brief-cases” from the H.E. Corley ES Green Step Team!
Natural Community Art
Kudos to H. E. Corley ES’s art teacher, Khaldoune Bencheikh, for organizing this fantastic “Natural Community Art Project” for District Five Families at the Irmo International Festival in April.
Caring for Creation
Students at St. John Neumann School are learning, doing and teaching others about composting and recycling.
Operation Bedroll
Dutch Fork HS Job Skills students made and donated eight finished bedrolls to Operation Bedroll for Columbia’s chronically homeless population. Each bedroll requires about 700 plastic grocery bags and 80 hours of labor (40 hours to make the plastic bag yarn and 40 hours to crochet.) Now these students are learning to weave plastic bags on pizza box looms.
Singing About Recycling
Kindergarten students at Catawba Trail ES were learning and singing about recycling this Earth Day.
Natural Dyed Leaf-Print Shirts
What was a top seller at Soda City’s Earth Day Celebration? Natural dyed leaf-print t-shirts made by students at Leapart ES!
Owl Education
Harmony School partnered with Congaree National Park Volunteers to educate the public about local owl species at Soda City’s Earth Day Celebration.
Milkweed and Monarch
Students from Irmo Middle School educated the general public about their “Milkweed & Monarch” project and sold pollinator plants at the Soda City Earth Day Celebration.
