Caring for Our Watersheds Alberta 2023 Top Ten Finalists at the Reynolds Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin on May 12th
Caring for Our Watersheds Alberta 2023 Top Ten Finalists at the Reynolds Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin on May 12th
Congratulations Emmett and Cassy!First place winners for designing a project to stop the spread of invasive species. They created boot brush stations and signage for parks so hikers can clean off invasive plants and seeds from their boots. They have already built a number of these stations and have permission to place them in some local parks.
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Congratulations Moses! Second place winner for organising a school wide eco-week where each day focused on a different environmental issue. Planning one week with a sustainable swap-meet, reducing your waste, garbage cleanup, gardening, and minimal energy day. They are planning to host the Eco-Week at their school this fall!
Congratulations Jade! Third place winner for designing a project to lessen the amount of fish affected by winterkill. Jade partnered with Friends of Fish Creek to successfully plant willows along the river on May 13th. Jade’s project will prevent erosion and promote biodiversity
Congratulations Taylor and Kyptin! Fourth place winners for a project where they made a business to raise money to plant trees. For every piece of jewelery sold there will be a tree planted on behalf of the customer. They donated $625 from the sale of their jewelery to Trees for Life as well as planting 125 trees.
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Check out their Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/trees.and.beads/
Congratulations Sarah, Zoe, Alexa and Nora! Fifth place winners for designing a project to raise awareness and stop the use of harmful chemicals in cosmetics. Creating a badge that promotes local brands that do not use any triclosan and phthalates, and signs to put up in businesses to educate the public on these chemicals.
Congratulations Aria! Sixth place winner for designing a project looking at alternative ways to irrigate crops more efficiently. The excessive droughts in Southern Alberta inspired Aria to look further into the issue of water use and shortages. Studying and presenting several different ways in which farmers could change their practices.
Congratulations Paige and Stella! Seventh place winners with their poem called Cold, it is about a personified glacier living through climate change. They want the poem to spread awareness and urge people to do more research about climate change.
Their poem: 
Congratulations Mary-Ann! Eighth place winner for designing and building bat boxes to put up in their local parks using the school’s workshop. There is even a new bat box builders club at the school to engage other students in the project.
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Congratulations Callie and Kalia! Ninth place winners for a project about saving the bees. They created stickers for a fundraiser and the money earned will buy flower seeds to give away for people to plant around their houses to increase bee activity and population numbers in the area.
Congratulations Bree and Jayla! Tenth place winners for creating a project to stop erosion by planting oats in gardens at the end of the growing season. They have created flyers to educate the public and are giving away seed packets to promote the use of a cover crop.
