Quench For Cash
Quench For Cash
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One of the biggest findings of the audit was that our school of approximately 300 students discards upwards of $700 worth of 10¢ drink containers per year. Returning to school for the start of 2024, my main focus was to change this.
Quench for Cash was a competition between the 10 Big Picture advisories to see who could collect the most drink containers. The incentive - or prize - was that the winning advisory would get to agree on a cause to put the funds towards.
In just 3 weeks, our cohort raised $110.40. In this short span of time, there were many days were well over a hundred containers were accumulated, many of which were brought in from external sources participants' households.
The Power of Pennies: How Small Contributions Drive Big Change
The Power of Pennies: How Small Contributions Drive Big Change
For my year-group's 2nd exhibition of the IBPLC, we were tasked with creating a mock Ted Talk.
For mine, I spoke narratively of my initiative with the overarching theme of small individual efforts driving larger change.
"Asher Noble shares the success story of Quench for Cash, a student initiative that turns waste into wealth by recycling drink containers for 10 cents each. He highlights the power of small contributions in driving sustainable change and inspiring community action."
Following the Initiative
Following the Initiative
When the initiative concluded, I ran a workshop with the winning advisory where we brainstormed ideas for causes to put the money towards.
During the initiative, we had spoken a lot about a charity rescuing one koala for every dollar raised and had joked of how 10 cans were equal to a koala.
However, when the time came to choose the cause, there was a strong consensus for the money to be invested into something that the students of our school could interact with themselves.
Seeing as it was on topic, we chose to put the money towards the permaculture garden. When I asked the permaculture teacher what resources the garden may need, he informed me that we currently had only a few saws... and that we needed a lemon tree. Shortly after, I purchased these items.
The lemon tree - named Loretta - now resides in the garden, where it will remain for as long as students and community members nurture it, long after Quench for Cash is forgotten about. Aaron and I agreed that this is symbolic of the same theme that the initiative was founded in - of many incremental contributions leading to powerful change in the world.
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