3. Mission of People Powered Float Project
• Operation Clean Sweep
– Community partner
– Anti-litter campaign
• Congdon Elementary School
– Education
– School clean up
• Parade and Float Design
– Earth Day awareness
• Creativity
• Teamwork experience
– Teams
– Lessons learned
4. Operation Clean Sweep
• Community partner
• Individuals we worked with
– Marissa Perez-Dormitzer: Education
coordinator
– Lynn Coish: Team leader
– Diane Berube: Education/outreach
• How we served them
– Created sustainable float made of
recycled materials
– Participated in a clean up event hosted
by OCS
• What they provided us with
– Ideas
– T-shirts
– Blue bins for our float
– Supplies for clean up at Congdon
5. OCS New Bedford Clean Up
• OCS anti-litter campaign
• Promoted this event
– Net Impact
• Meeting with Net Impact group leaders
– Posted flyers on facebook
– Congdon
• Handed out flyers to 40 students
6. Congdon Elementary School
We decided to work with the 5th grade class at Congdon
Elementary School in New Bedford. We set up a meeting with
the principal, Steve Machado as well as Mr. Costa and Ms.
DaCosta, the 5th grade teachers to discuss with them what we
were planning to do with the students.
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8. DAY 1: Friday, April 15.
Lesson Plan
• Showed a video about the effects of littering on the environment
and birds
• Administered a self test to see how much the students knew about
the topic
• Went over the lesson plan, in which students had to pay close
attention and fill in the blanks to the hand out we had passed out
prior to starting the lesson plan
9. • “I Pledge To” posters that were going to
be displayed around the school
• Recycling word search with homework passes as prizes for the first three to finish
• Trivia game with them to test what was learned from lesson. Prizes were given out
also!
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11. The Standard Times came to the
school and took pictures of the
clean up and also asked the
students about what their
thoughts were on littering and
what they were doing that day to
help their school.
• Although it was very windy
and cold during the school
clean up, the students were
still trying to clean up their
yard and fill the trash bags
with as much trash as
possible before the rain
started and it was time to
go inside.
• From the money that we
raised with our
sponsors, we ordered
popsicles for the students
to thank them for helping
out during the clean up.
DAY 2: Friday, April 12.
School Clean up
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13. Congdon Elementary School
By the end of the two days that we had
with the 5th grade students, it was clear
for us to see the impact that we had on
the students.
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15. The Standard Times
We were able to get two articles published in the
Standard Times about our work with Operation
Clean Sweep and Congdon Elementary School.
16. Earth Eve Parade
• We constructed a float
to raise awareness about
recycling and littering
• The float was to be
carried in the AHA Earth
Eve Parade in New
Bedford
17. Float Design
• Our float was
constructed of
recyclable
materials,
plywood, and
recycling bins
• Inside each
bin were a few
different types
of recyclable
materials
– Paper
– Glass
– Aluminum
– Cardboard
– Plastic
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21. Creativity
• We had brainstormed ideas for
our float but Operation Clean
Sweep did not agree with some
of our ideas.
• We had to alter our initial
ideas to please our
community partner and meet
the PPF requirements.
• The float was a success!
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23. Float Awareness
• On each of the bins were posters we created
• These posters portrayed different facts on littering and recycling
24. • This was to raise awareness about how littering can
impact the environment
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27. Lessons Learned
• Communication
– Facebook page, email
text messaging
– Facilitating open
communication
• Collaboration
– Collaboration is
essential to ensure
success
– Problem solving
