QuikSCience Challenge!!

Team Marine “Bag Team” competed in this year’s QuikSCience Challenge!

The QuikSCience challenge is a competition for middle and high school students. Each team creates a science project related  to marine or freshwater environments. The challenge is sponsored by the USC College Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies in partnership with Quiksilver Inc.

Each team (up to 6 students) submits:

  • A portfolio that includes all they’ve done
  • A lesson plan that they will teach to other students, and
  • A community service project
  • A research proposal
  • An Environmental Solution
  • and a 2min summary video clip
 

 

 

Our project: Plastic Pollution

We learn a lot just by being in Team Marine, but this project gave us the opportunity to learn even more and apply all that we’ve learned to a meaningful and inspiring project. Not only this, but this project brought us closer together as a team and has taught us skills that we can use throughout the rest of our lives. We admit, some parts of the project were difficult, but we pulled through and had a great experience in the end. Thanks QuikSCience!!

 

 

Here’s a link to our 2-min video clips!

 

 

Life Without Plastic

 Just recently, Mr. Kay bought 50 sustainable sporks from Life Without Plastics for Team Marine. These sporks are made of metal and they fold up and fit into organic drawstring bags. Team Marine first heard of this company from attending the POPS Youth Summit, where we received free sporks for our lunch. Life Without Plastics is a company founded in 2006, focusing on alternatives to plastic products. In addition to their sporks, they sell stainless steel food containers, reusable bags, as well as toys, pet products and school supplies.

They also donated ten free sporks to us and offered a partnership. We look forward to great collaborations with this company. Thank you Life Without Plastics!

Their website is: LifeWithoutPlastic.com

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