Devine eighth graders Collier Paige and Urijah Thompson are set on cleaning up Devine for their FCCLA project this year. On November 13th the duo held a trash clean-up for the FCCLA chapter at the road leading to our local Walmart. Paige stated, “This road always has trash along it and looks terrible. I thought it should be the first place we started with our project.” FCCLA members, advisor Linsey Outlaw and another parent volunteer helped to clean up four large bags of trash.
Paige and Thompson next set out to teach Devine’s younger students about the importance of not littering and why recycling is important. On December 11th, the DMS students presented to 81 third and fourth graders in Ms. Pike’s Science class. The boys created a slideshow with facts about pollution and some effects that it has on our planet, the different types of pollution, and asked the younger students where they see this locally and beyond. Paige and Thompson reached out to Don’t Mess with Texas for help with their speech. They utilized educational materials on the site for this presentation. To get the third and fourth graders thinking about how they could help with this problem, the boys asked them to create posters about littering on the intermediate campus. These were put up around the school by Ms. Pike to remind all the students to clean up any litter they see and to keep Devine Intermediate looking beautiful!
FCCLA students teach others about littering & clean up areas in Devine
Ms. Madison Pike is pictured with 8th graders Collier Paige and Urijah Thompson, whose project was to clean up Devine.
