Southeastern Honors Green Week with Trashin-Fashion Show

Students and staff are gearing up for the Third Biennial Trashin-Fashion Show, to take place Thursday, April 14, 2016 at Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School. The event is part of a five-day Green Week celebration to help promote Earth Day and the environment. This year’s fashions will focus on space exploration.

Students from a variety of shops will be modelling outfits from recycled material designed by the Design and Visual Communication (DVC) students. Cosmetology students will do makeup and hairstyles for the models and Video Production students will film the event. There will be three performances, at 9:28 a.m., 10:58 a.m. and 12:58 p.m., open to parents, students and staff, in the school’s Black Box Theater. Students will also receive awards for the greenest dress, best overall look, and best hair and makeup, based on live voting.

The performance is the highlight of a week-long event, which will include daily presentations in the cafeteria by Business Marketing and Environment Biotechnology students. Students will be able to buy green products sold by Southeastern students and they will also be educated on how to best recycle in and out of school.

The week will end with a repeat performance from 12-year-old singer/songwriter Brooke Leifer, of Mansfield, who will sing “One Earth,” in support of green schools, on Friday. Last year, Brooke collaborated with Southeastern staff and students to produce a video of the song, which was filmed at Southeastern and can be accessed through UTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=).gg3rMTeDQV8 Students will also be encouraged to post online pledges that will help the environment in some way.

Green Week is a student-driven STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) event to help students become more aware of their environment and to inspire them to come up with more creative ways to live a green lifestyle. The event was devised by students in the school’s Environmental Biotechnology and Design and Visual Communications Departments, but it has quickly spread to include an increasing number of students throughout the school. This year, Business Marketing students also helped to publicize and coordinate the events.

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