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Garden State EnviroNet Project CLEAN UP Website
Our Mission Continues
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On March 22, 2004 gifted and talented students from the three school teams, hailing from Mildred Barry Garvin School,
Gordon Parks Academy, and Ecole Toussaint Louverture, learned they had sealed a second place position in the prestigious Future
Problem Solving Program. The students have been working hard since September and their efforts were rewarded with this
placement.
Also newsworthy is the fact that the New Jersey Department of Education, Clean Communities Council has invited Project
CLEAN UP to perform their Environmental Show on "Litter-acy Day", on May 14th in Trenton, NJ further recognized these gifted
and talented students' efforts.
The original, student created Environmental Showcase, which has already been performed in front of East Orange City Officials
and has been broadcast on Comcast Cable, includes original puppets and a recycling drill team routine. The collaboration
with East Orange Public Works' Program Coordinator Knadya O'Kelly, has already performed at Wohlstrom Academy in East Orange
and at Burnet Hill School in Livingston NJ in front of approximately 250 students.
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Project CLEAN UP, (Community Leaders Educating and Achieving National Unity against Pollution), is a Community Problem
Solving Competition Team in which students apply problem solving skills to an existing problem in their school community,
or state. They are busy staying local AND going global with their environmental education mission and with maintaining
and beautifying their community, specifically three city lots located on Eaton Place and Greenwood Avenue in East Orange,
NJ.
To compliment the traveling puppet show, they have also created a coloring book about the puppets, ready for distribution
after each performance. Staying local and going global--this dedicated group of gifted and talented students are thriving
in the inner city under the guidance of their Quest Teachers, Carmine Capogrosso, Maria Johnson, and Andrea Jacome.
They have become environmental ambassadors, and are repeatedly asked to assist the City of East Orange during major environmental
events such as the biannual "Clean Up and Green Up" Beautification Day and leading the Community Block Development grant Day
Parade scheduled for April.
A big accomplishment that put the team on the map last June was winning a second place trophy at the International Competition
for the massive video and paper documentary of our East Orange community clean up project.
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