{"id":1773,"date":"2019-04-24T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.lps.org\/recycling\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:52:33","slug":"pound-students-awarded-for-pollution-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/2019\/04\/24\/pound-students-awarded-for-pollution-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound students awarded for pollution solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

Pound students awarded for pollution solutions<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\"\"<\/a>Nebraska may not be near an ocean, but that doesn\u2019t mean people in the heartland can\u2019t affect the seas. \u00a0With some hard work and even more creativity, the 7th grade students at Pound Middle School developed their own solutions for reducing plastic pollution in waterways. \u00a0These solutions sprung from National Geographic\u2019s annual GeoChallenge, a program that tasks middle school students with generating real solutions to real-world problems. \u00a0This year\u2019s challenge was focused on \u201cTackling Plastic!\u201d and asked students to investigate the pressing issue of plastic litter polluting our waterways. <\/span><\/p>

Leading the students were Pound science teachers Anica Brown and Kirsten Smith. Under their guidance, 11 of the 45 total projects qualified for the regional competition in Kansas. \u00a0There, two Pound teams were awarded 2nd and 3rd place overall for their project proposals. These awards included a monetary prize, which students plan to use for a sustainability project at Pound in the fall. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\"\"<\/a>This past week, a showcase was held to display all of the students\u2019 impressive projects. \u00a0Students focused on waterways as near as Holmes Lake and as far away as the Ganges River in India. \u00a0One project – the second place regional winner – centered on cleaning up the North Platte River. Students laid the framework for a non-profit that organizes communities in removing plastic litter from the river, as well as introduces waxworms to the environment, a type of critter that eats plastic. \u00a0Another project proposed a filtering system for cleansing toxic waste in waterways while at the same time generating clean energy through the process. Other projects focused on tactics to incentivize the use of reusable and non-plastic products. <\/span><\/p>

Given the success of student involvement this year and the value of the hands-on learning experience, Brown and Smith hope to expand LPS\u2019s involvement in the program in coming years. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pound students awarded for pollution solutions Nebraska may not be near an ocean, but that doesn\u2019t mean people in the heartland can\u2019t affect the seas. \u00a0With some hard work and even more creativity, the 7th grade students at Pound Middle School developed their own solutions for reducing plastic pollution in waterways. \u00a0These solutions sprung from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5337,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/files\/2019\/04\/IMG_4567.jpeg?fit=1536%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XcXY-sB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}