Lean Green Clean Up Team

John Coucci

Ashley Pisqolla

Kayleen Pereira

Kathy Kelleher

Anthonio

Montrond

This is the true story…

of five strangers…

picked to complete a PPF project…

work together and have their progress monitored…

to find out what happens…

When students put their differences aside…and start going green!

Mission of People Powered Float Project

• Operation Clean Sweep– Community partner – Anti-litter campaign

• Congdon Elementary School– Education – School clean up

• Parade and Float Design– Earth Day awareness

• Creativity • Teamwork experience

– Teams– Lessons learned

Operation Clean Sweep

• Community partner• Individuals we worked with

– Marissa Perez-Dormitzer: Education coordinator

– Lynn Coish: Team leader– Diane Berube: Education/outreach

• How we served them– Created sustainable float made of

recycled materials – Participated in a clean up event

hosted by OCS

• What they provided us with– Ideas – T-shirts– Blue bins for our float– Supplies for clean up at Congdon

OCS New Bedford Clean Up

• OCS anti-litter campaign• Promoted this event – Net Impact

• Meeting with Net Impact group leaders

– Posted flyers on facebook – Congdon

• Handed out flyers to 40 students

Congdon Elementary School

We decided to work with the 5th grade class at Congdon Elementary School in New Bedford. We set up a meeting with the principal, Steve Machado as well as Mr. Costa and Ms. DaCosta, the 5th grade teachers to discuss with them what we were planning to do with the students.

DAY 1: Friday, April 15. Lesson Plan

• Showed a video about the effects of littering on the environment and birds

• Administered a self test to see how much the students knew about the topic

• Went over the lesson plan, in which students had to pay close attention and fill in the blanks to the hand out we had passed out prior to starting the lesson plan

• “I Pledge To” posters that were going to be displayed around the school

• Recycling word search with homework passes as prizes for the first three to finish

• Trivia game with them to test what was learned from lesson. Prizes were given out also!

The Standard Times came to the school and took pictures of the clean up and also asked the students about what their thoughts were on littering and what they were doing that day to help their school.

• Although it was very windy and cold during the school clean up, the students were still trying to clean up their yard and fill the trash bags with as much trash as possible before the rain started and it was time to go inside.

• From the money that we raised with our sponsors, we ordered popsicles for the students to thank them for helping out during the clean up.

DAY 2: Friday, April 12. School Clean up

Congdon Elementary School

By the end of the two days that we had with the 5th grade students, it was clear for us to see the impact

that we had on the students.

The Standard Times

We were able to get two articles published in the Standard Times about our work with Operation Clean Sweep and Congdon Elementary School.

Earth Eve Parade

• We constructed a float to raise awareness about recycling and littering

• The float was to be carried in the AHA Earth Eve Parade in New Bedford

Float Design• Our float was

constructed of recyclable materials, plywood, and recycling bins

• Inside each bin were a few different types of recyclable materials– Paper – Glass– Aluminum– Cardboard– Plastic

Creativity• We had brainstormed

ideas for our float but Operation Clean Sweep did not agree with some of our ideas.

• We had to alter our initial ideas to please our community partner and meet the PPF requirements.

• The float was a success!

Float Awareness

• On each of the bins were posters we created • These posters portrayed different facts on littering and

recycling

• This was to raise awareness about how littering can impact the environment

Team Experience

Lessons Learned• Communication– Facebook page,

email text messaging

– Facilitating open communication

• Collaboration– Collaboration is

essential to ensure success

– Problem solving

Lessons Learned •Constructive criticism –Difficulties with accountability–Lack of commitment by one person can affect entire team