Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Aqua Girls Update

In my last few articles I have been keeping you updated on my D.I. (Destination Imagination) happenings, and I’m going to do that in this article too. Here is what has been going on since my last article. Well, my team, the Aqua Girls met with the entire Bay Village Green Team at their meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14.

On the night of the meeting I think everyone was a little nervous as the Green Team was setting up tables and chairs. And then Ms. Lori Sprosty came over to our group and told us it was time for us to do our presentation about our Huntington Beach Clean-Up community service project.

Each of us took turns speaking about things like what Destination Imagination is and about our community service project challenge. We explained why we picked a clean-up of Huntington Beach and the reasons why the beach is so dirty. Then we told them that we’ve made community partners with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Adopt-a-Beach.org, The Observer and Cleveland Metroparks. Finally, we told them that we plan to talk to City Council and ask Mayor Sutherland and council members for their help as well.

At the end of our presentation, we asked the Green Team if they would become community partners with us and they took a vote right in front of us! I thought that was pretty cool to see. Their vote was unanimous to become partners with us.

Then we asked them if they had any advice to help us with our project. They suggested many great things like contacting the Mayor’s office and having her office do an e-blast and possibly get a write-up in the Mayor’s Quarterly Newsletter about us and our beach clean-up plans.

They thought we should educate the community about how to keep the beach clean so that we don’t have to clean it up so much. They told us that the high school has a group called Project Earth and encouraged us to ask them to get involved with our project too. They also suggested we use recycling bags when we clean up the beach, and we are planning to do that with our contact people at Adopt-a-Beach.org. Finally, someone suggested that we do a YouTube video about our project and how to keep the beach clean in the future.

The Green Team has given us a lot to think about and we want to thank them for having the Aqua Team at their meeting and giving us so many amazing suggestions! We are looking forward to putting all their suggestions into our project. We  will attend an upcoming City Council meeting, and we have made a YouTube video. You can watch it at tinyurl.com/aquagirls.

We are so excited! Thanks again, Green Team. When I get older, I hope to join Green Team and help make the world a cleaner place to live.