ACE assembly encourages AVHS students to join Environmental Club

On Thursday, many of our school's science classes attended an assembly from the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), an awesome organization whose goal is to raise awareness about global warming and empower young people to do something about it and to change their lifestyle, one thing at a time.


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The presentation was creative, informative and encouraged a lot of students enough for them to sign up to join our club! It's very exciting. Our next meeting on February 26 will probably be our biggest meeting yet, so be prepared for the meeting to be super-charged with enthusiasm about saving our planet.

We'll probably each choose our DOT (Do One Thing), as ACE encouraged us to. Everyone will choose one thing they want to change and they'll do that over the course of the following two weeks (kinda like our green tips and challenges, only everyone will have their own personal DOT).

We may film a bulletin commercial with everyone who comes to the meeting. The sheer volume of people may be a great way to encourage others to join, so we may go film a short commercial on the field. Everyone could stand behind one speaker and then at the end we could all shout some awesome phrase to encourage people to join.

By that point, I should have a comprehensive list of Earthweek events in the community and Leadership will have met with our club's officers and Mrs. Turner. We'll go over the events we discussed at our last meeting for our new members and I'll probably make an agenda like last time so people can follow along.

Don't forget to be thinking about ways to reduce the amount of litter in your lunch. We will have a discussion about that at our next meeting, as well.

See you all February 26 in E5 at lunch!

Melissa