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Green Teens Eastside

Eastside Memorial High School

KAB Annual Awards Luncheon Centerpieces – A lesson in waste not

Reagan, LBJ, and Eastside Memorial Green Teens brightened up the 2010 KAB Awards Luncheon with handcrafted centerpieces made from recycled egg cartons, glass jars, packaging peanuts, and plastic bottles. Interesting sculptures emerged from a little paint and a lot of hot glue. The project was an eye opener of how much waste we generate on a daily basis, where that waste ends up, and how we can reuse and recycle our way towards an environmentally friendly lifestyle. The final centerpieces - a green fan turned alien, and yogurt cups and chip bags transformed into a butterfly caught the attention of guests. Chris Blackman from Eastside Memorial High School attended the Luncheon to represent his fellow Green Teens and to be inspired by the winners. 
 
 
 
Garden Focus
Creating centerpieces was balanced with enjoying the outside courtyard and installing a square foot veggie garden. A fieldtrip to The Great Outdoors provided an opportunity for students to select plants for the garden. With the help of students and staff from Life Skills Green Teens at Eastside kept the school courtyard green and blooming.
 
Notes from the Field
Travis High students hosted Eastside Green Teens this spring for a day of touring the nearby Blunn Creek Preserve and Creek. While there the students teamed up to take apart macro leaf traps and find aquatic bugs and Travis students shared their favorite wonders of the Preserve.

 

    

 

A Fishing Trip turns into an Outdoor Skill Building Workshop
With fishing gear from Texas Parks and Wildlife’s (TPWD) loaner program and TPWD Master Anglers expertise Green Teens from Eastside and LBJ were able to successfully go catching (and releasing) instead of just fishing. Master Anglers provided one on one instruction to teach students how to tie knots, bait hooks, id fish, cast effectively, and sit patiently!  
 

   

 

2009-2010 Highlights

Eastside Memorial High School (in partnership with 21st Century Community Learning Centers)

This year Green Teens at Eastside took full ownership of maintaining the courtyard gardens at the school. Students tackled some of the dirtier chores of working in a garden too. Big rotten banana trees were cut back and have now grown back into beautiful trees. The garden transformation continued with a cleaning out of the existing pond, and planting ornamentals, veggies, and herbs while learning about native plants, propagation and uses of herbs. Next, to show some school pride students painted cement tables in the courtyard the school colors.
 

After a year of hard work, projects came to a close and students got a chance to relax (a little) in the garden and relish in their accomplishments while playing Gardenopoly and Compost Gin that to their surprise they were experts at!