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Green Tree Peas Add a Splash of Color to Southwest Middle School

  By Alana Bangura • December 3, 2022 , , ,

Hello, We are the Green Tree Peas and we currently consist of three members. 

These members are Alana, Kimberly, and Gaetcha.

Alana Bangura

  • Hello, I am Alana currently completing my senior year at PSU Berks campus. Some quick and fun facts about me are that I enjoy music in my free time, I have my own event decor business, and I was on two different step teams at two different times in my life. 

Kimberly

  • Hi! My name is Kimberly Nicholas. I am a 3rd year student here at Penn State Berks. A couple fun facts about me are that I love horror movies, listening to music, and playing video games. My computer – my pc, is my LOVE and my LIFE I even built it myself. One of the things I achieved and own that I’m proud of.

Gaetcha

  • Hi, My name is Gaetcha Denis. I am a 2nd year student at Penn State Berks. Here’s some fun facts about me. I love to edit videos in my free time, paint and listen to music. I am a big fan of fantasy novels and anything that’s non fiction as well. I’m proud to have interned in a hospital during my last year of High School and getting to work in customer service after graduating truly changed my outlook on customer care.

 

Our research issue

Our research topic centered around Food waste and its contribution to greenhouse gasses on a National level and we decided that the best sustainable development goal to focus on with our research would be goal 13, Climate Action. During our research we gathered much information on the ways that food waste has contributed to the substantial amount of greenhouse gases being released into the environment. We also have come up with many solutions in which we could work toward eradicating or at least lowering some of these contributing factors.

EACAP Research Powerpoint

Our Service Plan

For our service component as a team we collaborated with Southwest Middle School in order to create colorful topic related tiles that would be given back to the school and placed in different rooms for the students to be able to see. Our ideas for the designs came from what we believed would be most suitable in a school environment but also covered different components of our research. We focused on food, energy, and natural resources because we believed these topics would symbolize or closely link to the research we were able to collect. 

Our Tiles

 

Final Thoughts/ Reflection

Summary: Overall, despite a couple obstacles and difficulties, we really enjoyed being a part of this project. Through collaboration with not only our PSU (Penn State University) counterparts but also with the MSU (Moscow University) students we learned how to work together with other people who share similar goals. We also appreciate how this project offered us a lens to look at environmentalism. This panel project was very important to us because the three of us love art, and it gives us an opportunity to go out into the world, starting with a middle school in our own community. This project assisted us in being able to make small changes happen and educate young people through art about the beauty of the environment and how to maintain it all while trying to make a difference.

To the Youth: Take the time to get creative and join in helping your community! There are plenty of things you could do that may be of interest to you! Take our team for example, we all love art and this was a great way for us to dig into our own passions while playing a crucial role in giving back. 

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The Happy Little Trees had fun with Southwest Middle School!

  By Arial Charles • October 24, 2022 , , ,

The Happy Little Trees

Hello, we are the Happy Little Trees! Our group is composed of four first-year students named Fay, Arial, Maddie, and Molly. We all enjoy shopping, hanging out with friends, and painting! Fay is doing a double major in Risk Management and Entrepreneurship. She loves to play volleyball, cook, and play with her dog. Maddie is majoring in Business marketing. She enjoys spending time with her family, boating and traveling. Arial is majoring in business marketing. She loves cats and being creative. Molly is undecided. She enjoys taking naps and painting and loves dogs.

 

Research

While figuring out our research topic, we aimed for a topic that is related to both teams’ service projects. After hearing the MSU students were focusing on composting, we decided to research the issue of food waste today in the United States and Russia. We worked with students from MSU to compare and contrast the food waste in the US and the food waste in Russia. We went further to investigate our own cafeteria right here at Penn State Berks, and conducted an interview with Head Chef, Joseph Ertel. After many zoom meetings with the MSU students and continuing our research, we created a narrated presentation summing up all of our findings and comparisons. 

Food Waste Research Presentation Link

Service

For our service project, we decided to paint ceiling tiles for the Southwest Middle School right in Reading. We worked with Shana Holler, head of their science department to plan on painting the tiles for the science hallways. We focused our painting on the environment and sustainability. We painted two tiles each and created paintings that would showcase the importance of our planet and conserve its unique beauty. It was very fun to create art while also educating such a young group of students at the middle school. We created a video showing our progress and experience with this portion of our project.

Service Project Video (Ceiling Tiles)

Outcome

As a whole, we all worked well together and enjoyed both portions of this project. Although finding the right times to meet with MSU students was difficult, we still enjoyed getting to speak with them and collaborate on this project. It was great to grasp a different perspective of the world and be able to work with international students. We worked hard on our paintings as well and hope the students at Southwest Middle School enjoy them and make an impact on their views of their environment. It was a great experience and we were very glad that through this experience we were able to make new friends!

 

 

 

 

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Scraping and Taping!

  By jmm8167 • March 21, 2019 , ,

3/14/2019

Today, we started the actual physical work of our EACAP project.  We all met up to scrape lanternfly eggs and then tape the trees.  The taping of the trees is for any eggs we may have missed and some that were too high to reach.  This way, when the eggs hatch the full grown lanternflies will be stuck to the sticky adhesive.  It was actually a good time working together.

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Crossing Streams

  By jmm8167 • January 24, 2019 ,

left to right : Nathan, Kyle, Jimmy, Jaeden

We are Crossing Streams, we are all from Berks County and we all love the outdoors.  This project is going to be a lot of fun for us and a nice way for us to give back to the area.  We are all sophomores in college at Penn State Berks and we all plan to transfer to University Park next semester.

I am Jaeden Mathias and I graduated from Tulpehocken Junior Senior High School in 2017.  I enjoy playing soccer and spending time hiking. I plan to major in Geography and graduate in 2021.  

I am Kyle Lanshe and I graduated from Schuylkill Valley High School in 2017. I always love spending most of my time in nature. I really enjoy mountain biking and snowboarding. I plan to major in Economics in 2021.

I am Jimmy Lanshe and I graduated from Schuylkill Valley in 2017. I love being outside and spending time in the outdoors. My interests are mountain biking, snowboarding, and fly fishing. I am an Economics major and plan to graduate in 2021.

I am Nathan Strause, a graduate of Schuylkill Valley High School in 2017. Some interests include mountain biking, snowboarding, and other outdoor activities. I plan on transferring to University Park and major in business at Smeal. 

 

2/13/2019

Ms. Boyer asked us to look into the tape used on trees.  She wants us to scrape the eggs off of the trees on the property.  She also wants us to then look at preventative techniques like wrapping the trees in the protective tape.  She also would appreciate us to create a visual aid to help explain to the kids why the tape is there and what the life cycle of a spotted lanternfly is like.  She said we could use this visual aid for our presentation and then give it to her after the completion of our presentation.  She said we may also come in to teach a little bit to her kids in garden club and that would be helpful.

 

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The Green Lion, Final Post! Our Video!

  By cfn5029 • May 8, 2016 ,

We would like to share a video with everyone the importance of food waste, so please have a look at our video here! Please feel free to share this video with friends and family, wherever you please. Use this video as a way to get the message out about how severe food waste really is!

The Importance of Food Waste