TEAM GREEN AT OUR PLACE – article by Nico Pettit, Year 8.
Team Green was part of OUR PLACE at the Wanaka A&P show where we promoted active transport, recycling and waste reduction.
We organised free activities at two stalls and had a waste free lunchbox display!
At one stall you could make your own free upcycled earrings out of inner tubes from bikes and Team Green supplied hooks, tubes, and nail polish to decorate the earrings and we taught everyone how to make a nice feather shape for an earring! Many beautiful feather earrings were made, you might see them being worn around town or at school!
The other stall had two pedal powered juice bikes, where you could pedal to power the attached blender to make your own slushy!
Lots of people visited us, including our principal Mrs Jacobsen, our deputy principal Mr Sheppard and our head student Meg, who cycled for their freshly whizzed cordial and mint slushy!
Of course we were really popular with all the children too!
It was a big weekend and we were pretty tired after manning our stall for two days!
A big thank you goes to Wanaka Show for the free site, New World Wanaka for their kind $100 donation towards our stall, Matt Quirk from Good Rotations for the juice bike and the Bead Shop Queenstown for donating the earring hooks!
We could not have done it without you.
Ka Pai! Team Green.