Suncoast

1 May 2009 -

On April 23rd, 2009, Suncoast Earth Force brought together over 500 service learning champions to celebrate a year's worth of accomplishments at the 9th Annual Youth Summit. This event, held at Al Lopez Park in Tampa, was organized by Earth Force, a nonprofit organization that provides students with all the tools they need to identify community problems, locate resources, and take action to make a difference now and in the future.

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23 Jan 2009 - Azalea Elementary Earth Force Club members got the opportunity to participate in a special tree planting event sponsored by the National Football League and the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee at the Science Center of Pinellas County. This event was made in an effort to help "green" the Bay Area offsetting some of the Super Bowl Festivities carbon footprint. More...

31 Oct 2008 - Twin Lakes Elementary students are featured in the online version of the Carrollwood News & Tribune, hosted on TBO.com. The story focuses on the recent reciept of the Staples Earth Force Award for Mrs. Virginia Frissell's 2007-2008 fourth grade Earth Force class. More...

10 Oct 2008 - A Suncoast Earth Force Alumni is featured in an interview in the September 29th, 2008 issue of Scholastic News Magazine about the upcoming November 4th Presidential Election about what is important to her in a candidate.

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6 Aug 2008 - Suncoast Earth Force celebrates the 2008 Youth Summit at Al Lopez Park in Tampa. More...

5 Aug 2008 - Suncoast Earth Force Teacher Mrs. Judy Alvarez is honored by Tampa Bay's ABC 28 Action News as their "Head of the Class." More...

4 Jun 2009 - The students at Blossom Montessori School for the Deaf created a newscast about conserving water in their community. More...

2 Mar 2009 - On February 10th, five students from Saint Anthony’s Catholic School in San Antonio stepped before the Board of Pasco County Commissioners. They were there to represent their fellow Earth Force Club members in being commended “for their outstanding efforts in promoting recycling in Pasco County.” More...

12 Dec 2008 - Blake High School has launched one of its latest Dreams for Teens initiatives for positive “change”. This ambitious youth-driven effort is based on Newberry Medal winner Paul Fleischman's novel Seedfolks where a junk-strewn city lot is transformed into an urban garden, a process that transforms the gardeners' lives, as well. At Blake High School, in similar fashion, approximately one hundred high-achieving upper classmen (seniors and juniors) have paired with one hundred underclassmen (sophomores and freshmen) to create a new more academic-focused “culture”—a garden of their own making. This “highly focused 8-month special operation” of student-to-student “relationship tutoring” is the first Principal’s Special Forces Team of its kind created using Earth Force methodology to encourage “youth voice” in solving a problem impacting the community at large. This youth-driven investigative initiative dates back to January 2008 when a group of students, parents and teachers (now known as Dreams for Teens”) began identifying a need to actively involve all stakeholders in “changing the culture at Blake High School while focusing on student achievement. In an effort to help address this concern and the concern of Administration to raise the school grade, the 2008-09 mission for the Principal’s Special Forces Team is to increase one hundred FCAT scores from a “level 2 “ to a “level 3 or better” resulting in helping the school raise the overall school grade from a “D” to a “B”. More...

12 Dec 2008 - Mrs. Christina Mayo’s class at Hillsborough High is working with the other Earth Force classes at the school, but with a catch. Their service learning project will be to create multimedia products including commercials about Earth Force and Service Learning and a documentary video of the Earth Force process at the school. More...

30 Oct 2008 - Students from Twin Lakes Elementary School receive the Staples Earth Force Award for their service learning project to preserve the natural habitat for animals living on school grounds using a variety of Florida native plants.

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20 Nov 2007 - Congratulations to Earth Force classes at Lutz Elementary and Robinson Elementary for receiving the “Guardians of the Bay” Award offered by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program.The award honors the work of youth 8-14 years of age who work to protect and restore
Tampa Bay. More...