2013 Award Ceremony


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Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant recipients celebrate with Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard at the check presentation ceremonies in the Carmel City Council Chambers on March 21, 2013. A record number of twelve youth groups were awarded funding for their environmental sustainability projects this year.
Daisy Troop 215 members are thrilled to receive their big check. The Scouts will plant mosquito-repelling plants and flowers in the CHS ArtsGarden. The girls will then create a poster to teach about how to use plants to discourage biting insects and avoid the use of harmful chemicals.
Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant recipients celebrate with Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard at the check presentation ceremonies in the Carmel City Council Chambers on March 21, 2013. A record number of twelve youth groups were awarded funding for their environmental sustainability projects this year.
Smoky Row Elementary students will be collecting unwanted and broken crayons for reuse and recycling in a project they call No Crayon Left Behind. Newer crayons will be reused, and the remaining crayons will be sent to the Crazy Crayons factory and made into new crayons.
Prairie Trace Elementary students will be purchasing tree seedlings for each student. They will educate the school about the importance of trees with posters and morning announcements.
CHS Carmel Learning Center students will be starting a recycling program, using reusable coffee cups instead of disposable Styrofoam cups, and improving classroom air quality with houseplants. They will measure and calculate the environmental impact of these projects.
The Carmel High School Art Club will add a pergola and butterfly bushes to their ArtsGarden. The pergola will house a rotating display of recycled art and focus on encouraging others to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Towne Meadow Elementary students will be collecting unwanted and broken crayons for reuse and recycling. The students will also purchase boxes of recycled Crazy Crayons to teach about the importance of both recycling and buying recycled items.
The College Wood Elementary Green Club will purchase recycling bins for the teacher’s lounge and for each grade’s hallway to facilitate and encourage more co-mingled recycling at their school.
The Carmel High School Green Team will purchase automatic light switches for some of the student bathrooms at CHS and will evaluate the energy savings and feasibility. The students will also hold workshops in the Plots to Plates CCS Community Garden to teach how to compost and how to make rain barrels.
The Carmel High School Do Something Club will plant large trees at River Road Park this spring. They will place an educational sign near the trees and share the environmental impact of the project.
The University High School Green Club will be starting a school community organic garden. They will teach organic gardening techniques to the students and staff, and share their discoveries with the community.
Carmel Middle School Green Team will be planting three large trees in the new Plots to Plates CCS Community Garden in back of their school. They will also give away tree seedlings and hold a community workshop on how to plant them.
Three Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program youth board members will graduate Carmel High School this year and leave our board. Lauren and Emily have served on the board since founding the program as 8th grade students. Ellena is a two year board member and has produced our professional quality flyers and advertisements.
Carmel Green Teen youth and adult board members volunteer their time, energy, and talent to administer this grant program so that young people may be empowered to make positive change in our community
For additional photos from our ceremony, please click here.