Youth Venture

April 23, 2007 - 1:09am — Tmaster

Bridging Communities

Today was the big event for Bridging Communities! It was a lot of fun. My parents drove me to Crissy Field so I could drop all the models and materials off with Emelie and Mina who were already there. Then I had to leave for Chinese school and returned at 12pm. I was so grateful that the sun came through for us today. It was raining just yesterday but the day was clear today. When I came back at 12, Carmen, Emelie, Dennis, and Mina were there. Cheryl and Vincent eventually came as well. At our booth, we had two posterboards out, one about the process of recycling and one about global warming. On the table, we also had a hydrogen power car model, a windmill, and examples of crude oil products. We were positioned right next to Baycat, technology education for youths. The event was slowly fading away as the hour went by. By about 2pm, people were packing up and leaving already.

I felt that this was a great first event for the founders of MRC. I can see how difficult and how much planning it takes to run a successful event. Hopefully as founders, we would pick things up and start charging forward but one step at a time. We must work to bring what we learned today and implement a firm recycling system into Mission High School first!

Terence Li

April 23, 2007 - 12:23am — andr3wli

Bridging Community

Today we went to Crissy Field and set up our own Mission Recycling Committee booth with Baycat. So we actually used part of their spot as our booth. Our booth is about alternative energy on how prevent global warming. We got two presentations one is about how to recycle and the other one is about global warming. We also got few hands on equipments like a wind mill that show how much voltages does it generates, some real fossil that we introduces each one and how fossils make fossil fuel, got a box of different kinds of oil: which if you heat it up in different temperature it creates another type of oil, gas, and etc. We had a hydrogen cell power car model which was a small car that is powered by hydrogen fuel, and got a solar panel lantern.

April 21, 2007 - 1:12am — Tmaster

Morning Collection Day (4/20/07)

Hey MRC founders,

Terence here. Well, just updating you all about what happened today for collection day. Andrew and I went to school way early in the morning, at around 7am and we just reorganized room 202. Dennis and Emelie eventually came at around 7:30 and we started to sort out the collected bottles and cans from yesterday. We collected a total of 283 plastic/glass/aluminum cans today.

Also, we will be changing the collection times guys. So instead of Thursday afterschool, the afterschool group will be collecting on Monday afterschools. Instead of Friday mornings, the morning group will be sorting and replacing bags during Tuesday mornings AND LUNCH TIME.

Thanks for all your help and I cannot wait until the Earth Day event on Sunday. Cross my fingers and hope that it won't rain on us.

Terence Li