The Cradle-to-Cradle team has organized a recyclable poster contest for students at Normandin Middle School. They have completed several tasks including establishing contest guidelines, collecting prizes, and planning community engagement activities. Remaining tasks include obtaining funding, finalizing contest logistics with the school, and setting up at an upcoming community event to showcase the project. While obstacles like scheduling and communication challenges were faced, the team remains dedicated to promoting sustainability awareness through this youth initiative.

1. Cradle-to-Cradle
Progress Report #2
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2. Presentation outline
 Introduction
 Completed
Tasks
 Tasks To Be Completed
 Community Partner Assistance
 Problems faced
 Conclusion
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3. Introduction
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The Cradle-to-Cradle team has been collaborating on action
plans in order to complete necessary tasks for our Recyclable
Poster Contest for the Normandin Middle School in New
Bedford. Although we have faced several obstacles, these
outcomes have led to new ideas and strategies for our final
project. We plan to complete a successful project,
acknowledging the students for their hard work. The Cradle-toCradle team has to complete a number of tasks before the
deadline and will do so by working side by side effectively.
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4. Completed Tasks
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Made contact with Darcie Aungst, Facilitator of student supports at Normandin Middle School.
Met with Darcie Aungst and established a plan on how kids will be able to complete posters at
school.
Established that we will be allowing all grades of Normandin Middle School to
participate in contest.
Established a time line of when kids will be able to work on posters as well as when they are
due by.
Met with Kerri, Director of Arts and Marissa for innovative ideas on how to grade the posters.
Contacted Lee Heald, Director of AHA night. Set up a location for our Cradle to Cradle table
to display our poster finalists.
Collaborated with Lee Heald and have been put on the map for AHA night as a children’s
activity.
Established a children’s activity: arts and crafts with recycled material; bottles, cardboard, etc.
Completed/edited numerous wiki pages.
Created grading guidelines for poster contest that have been given to teachers.
Created a video about the contest to better explain our projects to the students and teachers.
Collected prizes for the finalists.
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5. Tasks To Be Completed
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Need to meet with Principle of Normandin Middle School and establish a time on when to
give prizes to the finalists. – Sarah &Merry
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Collect materials for AHA night kids activity. Recyclable materials, crayons, markers, glue,
tape, etc. –Joe
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Repair bike for 1st place prize. – Group
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Continue our updates on our team wiki page. - Brittany
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Talk to CCB for funding - Sakeena
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Collect small prizes for finalists depending on funding from CCB. – Group
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Create a certificate for finalists to receive from their Principle.- Merry
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Get a table for AHA night from Sarah’s house. –Joe
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Collect posters from Normandin Middle school on November 7th – Sarah & Merry
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Grade posters –Group
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Create marketing material for AHA table about our group and our kids activity. – Brittany &
Merry
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Peer & Self Performance Evaluation Community Partner Evaluations
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Teamwork Lessons Learned
Final Presentation PowerPoint
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Photo layout showcasing our project
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6. Problems Faced
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Collaborating with schools in the beginning of our project.
Deciding who was going to participate and how/when.
Getting prizes from organizations
Gaining quick feedback from our community partners; schools
& businesses.
Time allocated to students during school hours. (MCAS criteria
has been a major factor in this problem)
Funding for extra costs in our project such as prizes.
Understanding our wiki to a full extent.
Balancing our individual school schedules with time to
complete tasks.
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7. Community Partner Assistance
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the completion of the final steps of our project,
we will partnering with AHA night on Thursday,
November 14th. We will be providing:
 The top ten student posters for the three top winners
 Showcasing Cradle-to-Cradle’s mission and
sustainability awareness
 Incorporating a fun, recyclable arts & crafts game
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8. Conclusion
 Although
we have completed a plentiful amount of
our project, we still have many steps to complete
within our timeline.
 Delegating tasks by completing our to-do list will
result in our projected goals.
 Our team plans to guide younger generations into a
sustainable way of thinking and behaving in hopes to
positively impact our local community.
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