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

Alana BanguraFall 2022 Project Teams

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. 

Eco Freaks for the fish!

bnd5212Blue Marsh

About us:

Our group the Eco freaks chose Blue Marsh as our location for the EACAP project as we worked with Briana Treichler. Composed of Ben, Logan, Ryan, and Tyler we chose to focus on habitat sustainability as we worked on making habitats for aquatic life population in Blue Marsh Lake.

Research:

Our goal was to make three aquatic habitats to help increase the biodiversity in Blue Marsh. As we started the project, we used mainly wood and a chop saw to create the base of the structure. We learned values of teamwork as we all worked together to finish different parts of the fish habitat efficiently. This project expressed the importance of aquatic habitat as destruction could cause harm to biodiversity.

Habitat Destruction:

Marine habitat destruction where the marine environment is unable to support life due to degradation. This is a process that is contributed by various natural and human activities.  As aquatic sustainability is to be able to continue a defined behavior in an environment and preventing possible damage to habitat. 

 

Project Reflections:

In this reflection we learned many things to help us in our future. From working together efficiently and using our teamwork strategies to get the structures finished. We also learned the value of aquatic habitat in blue marsh lake and the dangers of habitat destruction. We hope we have made a difference to Blue Marsh Lake providing a safe place for fish to spawn and hopefully increasing the native aquatic habitat.

 

Click here for Service Video

 

Brochure Link:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAE9xl6CQq8/bBXMLWBhD-rF__5WfQNTQw/edit?utm_content=DAE9xl6CQq8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

 

EACAP Reflection

jmm8167Crossing Streams

 

4/25/2019

During the spring 2019 semester, our group was tasked with the Glenside Scrap and Tape EACAP project. Glenside is an elementary school located in Reading, PA. We worked with Melissa Boyer, the school nurse who was very helpful throughout the process of the project. We met with her to discuss the task at hand and to provide insight that she found and gave us very good ideas. One thursday morning, our group went to Glenside with Ziploc bags, credit cards, some rubbing alcohol, and duct tape. We went around to twenty trees located around the perimeter of the school property and scraped the trees of Lanternfly eggs. We scraped the eggs using a credit card so the tree bark would not be damaged and made sure to get them into the Ziploc bag. Inside the bag was rubbing alcohol, so when the eggs entered the bag, they landed in the alcohol and died. This is a key thing to do because they will still hatch if just scraped off the tree. After all the trees were scraped, we began the taping portion. They do market Lanternfly tape, but it is very pricey and many sources claim duct tape works as well. We started taping the trees about three feet up from the ground and wrapped the tree about three to four times around in order to make a wider base. This is important because when the eggs hatch, they fall off the tree and eventually climb back up the tree. By taping the trunk, the Lanternflies will climb up but stick to the tape and eventually die. This is the equivalent to a glue trap for mice or ants that would be placed on the ground. One thing that would be changed and we have noted is the timing of the tape. The eggs hatch in May but the semester is over by then so because of a time limit we had to tape earlier. Because it was still colder out the tape peeled a bit in a few places but it was a learning experience that we now have for future reference.

 

The semester is finally coming to a close and it was a fun learning experience for our whole group when working on our EACAP project.  We enjoyed doing our part to help the community and preserve Berks county when fighting the Spotted Lanternfly. I think we can say that as a whole, we enjoyed the service aspect of the project.  We enjoyed working together and being outdoors to help out Glenside Elementary. It was overall a good experience and we all learned a lot about how we can give back while learning how to stop the invasive Spotted Lanternfly.