Sharing and Celebration Forum 2019
Forty eight students from thirty four schools located across South Australia gathered at Cleland Wildlife Park to celebrate the completion of their projects and their involvement in the 2020 Youth Environment Council (YEC). The YEC is a leadership program funded by the Department for Environment and Water and the Department for Education and is open to students in years 7 to 10 who are passionate about the environment. Throughout the year students from Kangaroo Island, the South-East, Eyre Peninsula, the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges and the South Australian Murray Darling Basin regions have been working on sustainability projects within their school or community.
A focus of the YEC is to encourage students to take action and to be accountable for issues they are passionate about. As a result, students developed environmental projects that focussed on creating positive change within their school or local community. Projects included improving a school’s waste management system, creating food and biodiversity gardens, cleaning the local marine environment, fund raising for their favourite environmental charity through social enterprise schemes and habitat restoration.
The Sharing and Celebration Forum provides an opportunity for students to celebrate completion of their involvement in the leadership program with the YEC and to display and explain their journey in developing their YEC project to a range of stakeholders. The Minister for Environment and Water, the Honourable David Speirs attended the ceremony, paying tribute to the contribution that the YEC members are playing in their community and presented students with their Youth Environment Council Certificates of Achievement.
Students presented their projects to their peers, school teachers, parents, the Minister and Presiding Member of the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board.
A focus of the YEC is to encourage students to take action and to be accountable for issues they are passionate about. As a result, students developed environmental projects that focussed on creating positive change within their school or local community. Projects included improving a school’s waste management system, creating food and biodiversity gardens, cleaning the local marine environment, fund raising for their favourite environmental charity through social enterprise schemes and habitat restoration.
The Sharing and Celebration Forum provides an opportunity for students to celebrate completion of their involvement in the leadership program with the YEC and to display and explain their journey in developing their YEC project to a range of stakeholders. The Minister for Environment and Water, the Honourable David Speirs attended the ceremony, paying tribute to the contribution that the YEC members are playing in their community and presented students with their Youth Environment Council Certificates of Achievement.
Students presented their projects to their peers, school teachers, parents, the Minister and Presiding Member of the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board.
