Change Agent Maeve From Shanty Bay Ps, Oro Medonte, On
My name is Maeve and I am a grade 5 student at Shanty Bay Public School. I am part of a program called the Change Agents. In Change Agents, you pick a global or local problem that you are passionate about and then attempt to make a change to solve the problem.
Last year I organized a writing utensil recycling contest at my school. I got the idea from the recycling program at Staples. The class who recycled the most writing utensils got a special visit from Zoo To You and our small school of 140 students recycled over a thousand writing utensils! All of these were then brought to Staples to be recycled.
This year I am spreading my recycling challenge throughout the entire Simcoe County District School Board! I contacted Staples and asked if they would join me as a corporate partner. I also contacted a local industry called Busch Systems: they make recycling bins. We are going to provide bins to every school and coordinate pick up of all the plastic writing utensils for recycling. I’m about to make and send out a video series to all the schools to see who would like to join me in a board wide challenge–there will be prizes for the school that recycles the most! I also want to help people make better choices around their use of plastics and I will include tips for doing that in the videos.
I think you should be a Change Agent because it opens doors to being a leader, helping people, and of course, having fun!