Workshop Session #2

#1 – No Plastic PAS

Pan-American School

Room 611

Essential Question:

How can we reduce the amount of plastic consumed at Pan- American School that ends up in our oceans and water systems?

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Impact Statement:

We have successfully reduced the amount of plastic consumed at Pan-American School in 2015-2016 by implementing different strategies and resources, like selling reusable water bottles, developing plastic reduction/classification campaigns, and presentations, to increase the environmental awareness in students and accomplish our goal of effectively classifying trash.

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Workshop Description:

Plastic posses a threat to the planet; it’s toxicity affects all living organisms and endangers our heath. It is our responsibility to diminish the use of this material in our lives. To reduce the consumption of plastic at our school, Pan-American School, we have developed several activities and strategies. Among these are the creation and sale of reusable aluminum and acrylic bottles, the education of students and staff through presentations, and a poster campaign to promote conscience among students and to indicate how the classification of plastic is done correctly. Moreover, we are negotiating with the school’s cafeteria to replace the existing plastic water bottles with cardboard ones.

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#2 – Love Food, Hate Waste

Catherine Cook School

Room 614

Essential Question:

As a school, how can we waste less food?

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Impact Statement:

The GIN Composting Group has raised awareness about food waste and completed a food waste collection during lunch to see how much food we waste at Catherine Cook. We would like to install a composting program at our school, and we hope to reduce the amount of food we waste daily and compost what we don’t use.

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#3 – Sustainable School

Colegio Americano de Torreon

Room 615

Essential Question:

How can we change a low-income public school into a sustainable one?

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Impact Statement:

We plan to successfully serve around thirty students from a public school from January to December 2016. We have been using the public school’s own trash, seeds, tools (shovels, etc.), big trash container and volunteer students. Once a week, student volunteers have gone to the public school and taught around thirty kids Math reinforcement, very basic English, basketball, how to separate and sell recyclables, how to upcycle trash to make toys, and how to plant a vegetable garden. All of these to accomplish our goal of effectively organizing a sustainable low-income public school.

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Workshop Description:

This year we dedicated our time in a very important project for us in Honduras, child immigrants. These children go through horrible experiences just to get to their place of destiny, normally the US. Some of the kids don’t even get to their destiny, they get physically assaulted and most of them die. We believe not any kid should go through such a traumatic experience like this one. Our small help was driven towards delivering a bag filled with essential to these immigration stricken kids. We held interviews with some of the people who work with the immigrants, for example the Vice Chancellor. She told us how much of an impact we made, and how everyone should be involved in such and important topic. To communicate this to our community we used many different strategies, one being hosting bake sales. We informed many people through these bake sales and also through social media. When researching about this project we realized that the amount of immigrants from 2014 and 2015 had decreased a somewhat, but not a lot. We wanted to help that amount to decrease even more. Every number that goes down, means one less life that is at risk.

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#4 – CONANCA

American Nicaraguan School

Room 616

Essential Question:

What can we do to provide treatment and ultimately cure the children fighting cancer in Nicaragua?

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Impact Statement:

CONANCA is a Nicaraguan organization created to help children that suffer from cancer and do not have the resources to pay for their treatment. We opened our CONANCA club at our school to support the organization and interact with the children, however, in a near future we plan to pay for someone’s treatment completely. We have interacted with more than 100 children with different backgrounds from all around Nicaragua. So far, we have raised funds in various in school and out school activities. We are still working and will continue working with the organization to reach our goal.

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#5 – Save The Drop

American School of Santo Domingo

Room 621

Essential Question:

What is the overarching question that you will answer during your workshop?

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Impact Statement:

We have successfully served 500 people by February 25, 2016 by giving a presentation on bacterias and the importance of proper hygiene habits when handling water. We also gave out flyers with 5 easy-to-follow advices to ensure these hygiene habits and prevent cross contamination. The flyers were written in both Spanish and Creole. We are working with the communities of Pedernales,Dominican Republic, and Anse-Pietre, Haiti. In the school setting, our students will be creating awareness among the student body about the importance of perserving water resources.

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#6 – Philanthropig:

The story of a pig that wants to change the face of poverty

EIS Escuela Internacional Sampedrana

Room 622

Essential Question:

Can we help change the face of poverty by raising awareness and spreading the spirit of generosity?

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Impact Statement:

We plan to create an awareness campaign and a program called Philanthropig that will show people the reality of a life in poverty, and provide an education fund to help children in need in Honduras by teaching generosity.

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#7 – Kits For Survival

American School of Tegucigalpa

Room 623

Essential Question:

What will be the most effective way of supporting the families affected by the process of immigration?

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Impact Statement:

We have successfully served 100 amount of people by January 25, 2016 date using the government’s resources, different fundraising strategies, and organization methods to accomplish our goal of effectively organizing the immigrant community.

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Workshop Description:

This year we dedicated our time in a very important project for us in Honduras, child immigrants. These children go through horrible experiences just to get to their place of destiny, normally the US. Some of the kids don’t even get to their destiny, they get physically assaulted and most of them die. We believe not any kid should go through such a traumatic experience like this one. Our small help was driven towards delivering a bag filled with essential to these immigration stricken kids. We held interviews with some of the people who work with the immigrants, for example the Vice Chancellor. She told us how much of an impact we made, and how everyone should be involved in such and important topic. To communicate this to our community we used many different strategies, one being hosting bake sales. We informed many people through these bake sales and also through social media. When researching about this project we realized that the amount of immigrants from 2014 and 2015 had decreased a somewhat, but not a lot. We wanted to help that amount to decrease even more. Every number that goes down, means one less life that is at risk.

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#8 – AC Recycling Group

Academia Cotopaxi

Room 624

Essential Question:

How do we make recycling sustainable so it becomes a habit in our community?

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Impact Statement:

We are creating a sustainable plan by recreating the trash cans so it’s more appealing, sharing our plan with the community which is not just students but families as well, creating a partnership with different associations to create a product for product exchange to redesign our school. It’s not just recycling it’s: Reduce, rethink, reimagine, and upcycle. Involving more people so that the group can achieve our long term goal.

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