Environment Team

A letter from the Environment Team Captains

Hello everyone!

The MGC Environment Team is back and ready for another successful and fun-filled year in 2017!

If you are interested in sustainability, the environment, plants, animals or recycling or have been a part of the team in previous years we would love for you to come down and join us!

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 15th of Feb, at lunchtime in Rm: 216. We welcome all students (new and old to enviro)!

Link to sign up on the team: https://goo.gl/forms/M3A8jMc4CzZiaq812

Our major annual event, the carbon neutral, human powered Pedal Cinema will be held on Friday 24th of Feb 2017, the movie will start at dusk, with entertainment, food stalls and side stalls such as pedal slot cars and Dory mascots, starting at 5pm. The movie airing is Finding Dory and the event is open to the public and MGC community, so we would love for you to bring your family friends along to this carnival like event!

Here's a link to buy tickets before hand if you would like: mgc.vic.edu.au/pedalcinema  

A quick overview of what the enviro team does and has achieved:

Conduct sustainability projects around the school and local community. Some projects we have conducted include; soft plastics collection project, introducing frog bogs in the area, energy efficiency projects, vege burger bbq and more!

Won $100 000 USD from winning the Zayed Future Energy Prize ( from the Internationally famous Masdar Institute in the UAE) and installed a massive array of solar panels, micro hydro inverter where students can charge their phones with green power, salty the seal - an interactive solar fountain and converted 4 indoor rowing machines into energy generators to power up lights that rowers use during training.

Conduct major events: Annual Human Powered Pedal Cinema (open to public), year 7 tree day and Annual student environment conference (invited to all high schools in Victoria)

Raise awareness among the school community in regards to environmental issues, which also includes ecological waste, water and climate change with the help of our awesome mascots, LanLan and BoBo.

Looking forward to seeing you there to work on more exciting projects to do our bit for the Environment.

From your environment captains for 2017

Thirumagal, Monique, Lucy and Sam