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We are currently working on a partnership with the Solid Waste Authority of South Florida and Talquin Electric. You can now find Conservation Cadets on Radio Green Earth’s site , Earth 911, YouTube and the website for the Florida League of Environmental Educators.
Shelia Acharya working with a Nepalese woman in a language lab.
This month Flagler SIFE has been busy working on the Suruwat Refugee program and Containers for a Cause.
Sheila and Barry finished the script for the second Suruwat video. The first one can be viewed here. We hope to start filming this new script once everyone is back from summer break. The topics it will cover are employment, housing and maintenance and transportation.
Our first video is now being used by 10 national resettlement agencies. Topics cover banking, grocery shopping, personal safety and learning English. We will be speaking to the agencies, including Catholic Charities, about the second video this week.
Containers for a Cause is moving forward. We received our building plans from PQH Architects and the plans are now at the county building department for approval.
These plans are for the single unit structure that we will construct on the parking lot of the St. Augustine Record. The high cube shipping container is 40ft x 8ft x 9ft6in.
Our Containers for a Cause project is moving along rapidly. We already have a container, which will be transformed into our first home shortly in the St. Augustine Record’s parking lot. We are working on several parallel paths that start from our initial container idea and expand out in multiple directions.
Our partners from Loci Designs have arrived in St. Augustine and have set up their equipment alongside our editing station, making it a rather cramped space considering the lack of air conditioning. We are working closely with Loci Design to create a concrete plan for our Containers for a Cause project.
In addition, today, June 9, we presented our idea to Dr. Proctor. Dr. Proctor was supportive and gave us several other exciting directions to consider for the project.
Currently, we are preparing a presentation for the St. John’s County on how our containers can reduce the local recidivism rate. We are also preparing to present at a TEDx conference in Savannah, GA on June 18.
That poster behind us has Kameron Lapp, Victoria Van Arnam and Jessica Welch’s faces on it!
After watching the final four, Flagler SIFE had a wonderful post competition dinner. As we were leaving the restaurant, we ran into Belmont, the newly christened national champions. Their presentation was incredible and they truly deserve the 2010 SIFE National Championship.
The SIFE year has turned over; this has been a great year for Flagler SIFE under the unwavering leadership of Jessica Welch. Congratulations to Jessica who is moving on to work with Wal-Mart. This year we have overcome many challenges, gained new experiences and grown exponentially.
The new Co-Presidents, Emily Marcellus and Victoria Van Arnam flanked by their Co-Vice Presidents Alyssa Murphy and Jessie Quick (for full list of officers see previous blog), are ready to lead the team through whatever the criteria changes and down economy can throw at them.
The team has since arrived back safely from nationals. Everyone has dispersed to their appropriate states. All is quiet in St. Augustine, but in Markland house, operations will soon be returning to normal.
We’re headed back to Saint Augustine now. The first group is en route to the airport.
We had a wonderful time with our entire family last night; parents, SIFERS, D&B (Donna and Barry), and Dr. and Mrs. Abare. We ate at “The Local,” exchanged senior gifts and gave speeches and toasts; a wonderful, memorable evening.
That’s all for 2009-2010.
Will keep you posted with the exciting summer stuff we’ll be doing!
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We made it to the semi-finals, but didn’t move on to the Final Four. We’re very proud of the team and the performance. Watching the Final Four now.
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We’re so proud of our team! We did the best we could at 8am for the top 20 semi-finals presentation this morning. We find out in an hour if we make the top 4!!! Immediately following the announcements of final 4, the contestants must prepare to get on stage right away. Keep your fingers crossed for us!!!
We made it to the semifinals! We will be presenting tomorrow again in the top 20!
More information later!
Bull Pen Unleashed!
The Rally of Champions was incredible! The entire team got to run up onto the stage, wave the American flag and show our Flagler pride. We watched as the trophy that once decorated our student center was once again brought to the stage for this year’s SIFE USA National Champions.
We won first place in the Campbell’s Lets Can Hunger, Hunger Awareness competition. The award included $750 for the team and a plaque! We are incredibly proud of our two freshman members who headed that program Jessie Quick and Ryan Ledonne.
We saw Joel Conner and Jack Shewmaker at the Rally and they stopped to say hi and meet our new members. We are so excited for the competition to begin! We present at 11:20, if you want immediate updates check our twitter and Facebook!
(right) Ryan Ledonne receiving Let’s Can Hunger award from Doug Conant President and CEO of Campbell Soup.
(left)Pictured from left, Barry Sand, Emily Marcelles, Joel Conner CEO and Chairman of Bellisio Foods and Chairman of the Board of SIFE, Victoria Van Arnam and Donna DeLorenzo.
