YES! - Youth Environmental Summit

In March, THS students and faculty attended the fourth annual Youth Environmental Summit (YES!) at University of Delaware. The conference is organized by students for students that are concerned about environmental stewardship. Anjalie Chakravertti ’25, Cassie Dong ’24, Jon Dong ’25, Aili Inguito ’24, Cathy Li ’25, Max Neal ’23, Haasini Potluri ’25 and Gautam Wadhwa ’23 attended, and several students worked on the planning process and gave presentations as part of the break out sessions. Jon Dong ’25, along with teachers Lauren Helfgott and Cheryl Mitchell, led a breakout session on honeybees at school campuses, “What’s the Buzz with Bees and Beekeeping.” Coale Crouch ’24 and Haasini Potluri ’25 led a breakout session with teacher Penny RodrickWilliams and UD Professor Michael Chajes focusing on the biodigester in the Tower Hill dining hall entitled “School Food Waste: A Biodigester Pilot Project.”

Social Justice Speaker

DeVon Jackson spoke with our students about the impact of language and words. He highlighted how words have meaning, and our relationships with words matter, particularly words that are highly charged and/or offensive.

Special Friendship - Real World Learning

Pre-kindergarteners have forged a friendship with our regular Waste Management visitor, Mr. Johnson. Weekly they look forward to seeing their friend in the big green truck who comes to visit and helps them keep the Earth clean! Their bond has grown throughout the school year, so he paid them an extra special visit to let the students look inside the truck, and he even gave them their own big green trucks for the classroom!