Earth Force: Local Offices & Partners: Charleston, SC: Success Stories

Goodwin Elementary School

26 Jul 2010 -

Through their work in the after school gardening club, students at Goodwin Elementary School made their school a brighter, cleaner and safer place to be!

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Students in Eva Stratos's SAIL classes along with the student council have worked together to provide leadership on a variety of projects, including planting trees on their campus for Earth Day and starting a student-run recycling club!

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Frierson Elementary School

22 Jul 2010 -

The youngest of our Summit attendees, these students are learning about recycling and going green for the first time. Frierson's Earth Force students will be working on their own project next year and wanted to get some ideas from the older students. Once these students get their Earth Force group going at Frierson, then they will move on to Haut Gap Middle School where they having been doing Earth Force for years! Haut Gap Earth Force students even hosted their own Summit on Friday, May 21st this year!

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Stiles Point Elementary School

22 Jul 2010 -

Working with their teacher, Jennifer Roberson, students at Stiles Point Elementary School got the good news about our county's expanded recycling program and decided that more people needed to know what could be recycled in Charleston county. These students have done their research, communicating with representative from Charleston County Environmental Services and Fisher Recycling. They have decided to make a public service announcement to share with all of the students at their school and other elementary and middle schools on James Island.

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Goose Creek High School

15 Jul 2010 -

St Students in two of Ms. MacIntosh’s classes at Goose Creek High School have completed successful projects addressing social, environmental, and health related issues in their school and community.

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Haut Gap Middle School

15 Jul 2010 -

Students at Haut Gap moved to their brand new school building this year and focused their efforts on recycling as well as gaining an understanding of the environmental issues surrounding their community.

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James Island Charter High School

15 Jul 2010 -

James Island Charter High School students work year-round to improve their school campus as well as the surrounding community. These students, led by their teacher/mentor Michelle Lee, work through a variety of clubs and classrooms to complete environmental service projects throughout the school year.

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James Island Middle School

15 Jul 2010 -

Sandie Nichols 6th grade students at James Island Middle School have worked on a number of projects this year. Students have evaluated energy use in their classroom and school in an effort to decrease their use of energy and save money for their school. These students have hosted presentations and created information boards to spread the word about smart energy use!

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Sanders Clyde Elementary/Middle School

15 Jul 2010 -

As a linking partner with Trident United Way’s Links to Success program, Earth Force was one of only a few programs offered in the Boy’s and Girl’s Club after-school program at Sanders Clyde Elementary/Middle School. Earth Force staff got to work directly with this excited group of 3-5 grade students to develop a project. Since the students are housed in a brand new school facility, they found only a few issues around their campus so the students turned their discerning eye to off-campus conditions.

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Earth, Water & Plant (E.W.P.) Savers Hunt for Litter at Charleston Progressive

3 Jun 2009 - Spring 2009 Earth Force Beyond the Classroom (EFBC) students at Charleston Progressive had a great semester learning about the environment and environmental issues affecting their school. Many great topics were discussed throughout the semester, including: trash and litter, graffiti, lack of recycling bins on campus, planting more trees around school, pollutants in the sewer drains, food waste and energy use. More...

EFBC Fall 2008 - Stiles Point Elementary

15 Jan 2009 - This was our largest Fall EFBC group with nearly 30 participants. These students were very ambitious and decided to tackle the building of their new school as the environmental issue they wanted to address with their service learning project. More...

EFBC Fall 2008 - Charleston Progressive

15 Jan 2009 - When completing the environmental inventory of their school campus, these students were appalled by the large amounts of litter on their school playground More...

EFBC Fall 2008 - Harborview Elementary

15 Jan 2009 -

Through EFBC, the Harborview Elementary team worked on increasing school recycling. The students made a skit titled, “The Recycling Story”, which was a play based on the classic, “A Christmas Carol”.

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EFBC Fall 2008 - James B. Edwards Elementary

15 Jan 2009 - These students are fortunate enough to have an incredible nature trail on their school grounds. However, when working with their EFBC facilitators the students noticed that there was no wildlife on or near their nature trail. More...

EFBC Fall 2008 - Mitchell & James Island Elementary Schools

15 Jan 2009 - Both of these student groups keyed in on litter as being the environmental issue that affected their school campuses the most. Both groups participated in interactive presentations from Clean City Clara from Keep Charleston Beautiful to learn more about the litter issue and how it affects the Charleston area. More...