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Parkville Students Recognized by Town For Green Video
Nineteen students from Parkville took first place in the Early Childhood division for work on the video, "Save Our Mascot."
Students from the Parkville School in Great Neck were recently honored by the Town of North Hempstead for an award-winning video regarding environmental awareness.
Nineteen students from Parkville took first place in the Early Childhood division for work on the video, “Save Our Mascot."
Dozens of other North Hempstead students where also honored at town hall for their work in the town's annual video contest for their work in discouraging the use of plastic bags.
The theme of this year’s contest was “Plastic Aint My Bag.” The competition required participants to produce a three-minute video illustrating why using plastic grocery bags ultimately harms the environment and its inhabitants.
“This contest is a way of engaging our students so they can learn why protecting the environment is so important,” Kaiman said to the assembled crowd of proud students and parents.
Student submissions incorporated music, graphics, and a wealth of eye-opening information.
The videos can be seen at the Town of North Hempstead’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/townofnorthhempstead.
The winners of this year’s video contest are:
- Early Childhood: First Place: Parkville School - “Save Our Mascot” - 19 students.
- Elementary School: First Place: Sousa Elementary - “Reduce the Bags” - Isaac Goldstein and Aidan Zeidman; Second Place: Sousa Elementary - “Reusable Hokey Pokey” - Sabine Rosaya, Ava Fasciano, and Maddie Gallager; Third Place: E.M. Baker Elementary - “Plastic in the Sky, Reusable in the Hand” - Sally Sarker and Vera Cho; Honorable Mention: Sousa Elementary - “Good Morning North Hempstead” - Chiara Maddison and Lindsay Collins; Honorable Mention: Notre Dame - “A Fish Tale” - Julie Manfro, Khihara Charles, Brayden Curran, and Olivia Mantoni
- Secondary School: First Place: Manhasset High School - “My Wish” - Skyler Gaccione, and Julia Henry; Second Place: Westbury High School - “Drastic Plastic” - Halaa Menasy, Emy Sosa, Jason Fuentes, Jeffrey Alvarez, Stephanie Ventura, Ivan Cortes; Third Place: Manhasset High School - “Plastic Ain’t My Bag” - Caprice Catalano, Katarina Catallo; Honorable Mention: Weber Middle School - “8 Ways I Despise Plastic Bags” - Jeremy Ettlinger and Adam Fried
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