EYC celebrates Earth Week

Norwood high school’s Environmental Youth Coalition, run by students and faculty advisor Ms. Leichtman, celebrated Earth Day in a series of events from April 26 to the first week of May. Some events included selling tree saplings, signing petitions to save wildlife, and a volunteer tree-planting opportunity. 

The goal of EYC is to provide a safe community for this generation and future ones by making the school and town more green. 

“Every day should be earth day and every week should be earth week because people need to be sustainable and raise awareness,” said faculty adviser, Ms. Leichtman. 

The events of the week included a bingo game for the week with activities to highlight Earth Week.  Students were encouraged to wear blue on Monday for sustainability. On Tuesday, there was a flower plotting and painting activity in the school courtyard. Thursday and Friday were green days where students were encouraged to wear green. Also on Friday, there was a WIN block speaker to educate students on recycling in Massachusetts. Saturday was the "tree-plenishing" day where trees were planted and delivered by volunteers throughout the town. Finally, Sunday was a town-wide clean-up day with many students participating. 

EYC member Gauri Loomba, enjoys helping the planet and doing other acts of service and fundraisers through the club. 

“In EYC, [we] students are given a lot of opportunities to better our community and school environment. We try to do all kinds of things, from free-trade chocolate fundraisers to presenting sustainable methods to prominent community members and town officials, to annually wrapping Christmas presents in recycled paper for school and community members. Most of our meetings are spent planning or gathering to do these activities. We do a lot of fundraising to raise awareness and money for a sustainable Norwood High" Loomba said.