Earth Day

Author: Anika Ravi

The National Green School Society (NGSS) is a Lamar High School club founded by Ava Durgin ('21). Since then, it has been led by its President, Anika Ravi, and will soon be in the hands of the current Vice President, Mary Emma Honeycutt. In addition to the garden they have on Lamar's campus by the Old Gym and the new project they are working on this year, the club hosts an annual Earth Day Event around Earth Day, which falls on April 22 every year. This year's Earth Day Event was the third for the club on Friday, April 21.

NGSS has a project this year that will help the Monarch Butterfly population. The club plans to put five box planters under the windows of Mrs. Carruth's art room and plant plants that promote the lives and well-being of Monarch butterflies. They are endangered, and on the brink of extinction, so this garden can overwhelmingly help the population grow again. This garden will also help keep the animal food chain intact. 

NGSS participates in Earth Day by hosting an event for the Pre-K and Kindergarten students of Lamar Elementary School. The event had six stations: a "dirt" cups station where the kids can make a chocolate treat, a station where they play games such as "recycle relay," a station where the kids painted rocks so the club can put them around their new butterfly garden, a station where club members read to the kids about Earth Day and the environment, a station where the kids can get their face painted by club members, and a station where they can make bracelets and bottle cap necklaces. The event was a huge success!