Energy Served 250+ Hours of Service on Saturday
Energy Institute High School participated in our Annual Fall Day of Service. Since 2017 (and even during the pandemic!) we have participated in a day of service in the Fall and Spring.
This year, we had two projects: Campus and Bayou clean-up and a STEM Partnership with NSBE, NHS, and the Houston Chapter of Jack and Jill of America.
For Campus Clean up, we worked in the courtyard. Students cleaned up the tree limbs, stray dead branches, and the overgrown ornamental ginger. We also spray painted the student parking lot numbers. Alexa Hernandez and Ms. Jocelyn Thomas used their arts and craft skills to make the stencils of the numbers we were missing! They looked as good as the purchased ones. A team lead by a parent, Mr. Sean Andrews, walked along the bayou and cleaned up along the way. They wound up walking two miles!
Our NSBE Team worked hard all day to set up a STEM Showcase for Kindergarteners and 1st Graders, the “Astro-Tots,” from Jack and Jill. We gained this partnership through Ms. Wendy Tilford who will be on campus working with our STAAR students next semester. Zion Duplechain and Bria Stewart lead NSBE and NHS volunteers in imagining, designing, and creating a fun and dynamic obstacle course for the children. Along with their parents, we had nearly 60 community members here. Our students mentored the children making Pinewood Derby Cars. We had a build, decorating, physics and race stations. NSBE created a wonderfully fun obstacle course for the children to race their cars. A team lead by Victor McKenna Borrero worked with the children to add nuts, bolts, and screws to their cars to see if weight impacted speed in the Physics Room.
All and all, it was a great day. Forty Energy students earned between 3 and 8 hours service each. Over 250+ hours served total.
Thanks to Ms. De La Rosa for coordinating the entire event!
Thanks to Ms. Shelling for her work to prepare NSBE.
Thanks to Ms. Thomas for her exceptional arts and craft skills and supervision.
Thanks to Mr. Elliott for your great ideas and supervision.
Thanks Ms. Thomas for her assistance with building the race course.
Thanks to Ms. Maydon, Penny, and Deliah Maydon for showing up and your gardening and Balloon Arch Expertise.
Thanks to Ms. Garcia for support, supervision, networking, and staying late.
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