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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Shannen Mota, Lauren Fahey, Kristina Yarmaloff, Magaly Salazar, Liliane Elkhoury

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We are the Fabric Finders, a group of five business management students at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. We have completed the America Recycles Day (ARD) Team Project at Winslow elementary School with the 4th and 5th grade to raise recycling awareness in the greater New Bedford local community.

Our main focus is to teach the students on how clothing and other fabrics can be recycled as well as to engage them in a school wide clothing drive. We reached our ultimate goal of raising 500+ items of clothing and fabrics.

We believe in promoting recycling awareness to the younger generation because it is important for them to start learning how to protect their environment at a young age.

Introduction

IntroductionOur Mission

Operation Principles

Our Goals

Community Partners

First Meeting

First Event

Second Event

Actual Donating of Clothes

Team Plan for Improvement

Individual Roles

Meet Project Criteria

Teamwork Lesson Learned

Conclusion

Outlines

We are the Fabric Finders, collectively we are striving to better the New Bedford community by improving recycling habits.

Our mission is to promote and educate good recycling habits to the fourth and fifth grade students of Winslow Elementary School.

Our Mission

Communication Time Management Organized Planning Clear GoalsNo Team Member Left Behind- Equal Shares of work

Operating Principles

Our Goals Goal Collect 500 articles of clothing GoalDonate all items raised to the Salvation Army in New Bedford.GoalMake recycling fun

ResultCreated different games made out of recycled materialsResultWe accomplished our goal by doubling

ResultDropped off clothing to Salvation Army and Red Cross drop off.

Working with 4th and 5th grade at Winslow Elementary.Main contact with Lori Silveira.Paula Bailey the principal.Marissa Perez Dormitzer New Bedford Recycling representative.

Community Partners

Met with Lori Silveira and fellow 4th grade teacher to discuss ideas.All notions approved by Winslow Elementary.Schedule future event.

First Meeting

Met with 4th and fifth grade students.Introduced ourselves.Questioned the childrens knowledge about recycling.Taught the children about recycling.Delivered clothing boxes.Distributed the flyer and permission slip to students for parents.Got students pumped up for future event.

LET THE CLOTHING DRIVE BEGIN!!!First Event

Gathered 4th and 5th grade in auditorium.Collected data of how many items gathered from each classEngaged students in different activities that incorporated recycled materials.Announced winner of clothing drive and presented homework pass.Surprised remaining three classes with homework pass for excellent participation.Thanked teachers and students for their generous help in our semester project.Gathered clothing from classrooms at Winslow.

Second Event

Learning through Play

Gathered and bagged enormous amount of clothes Contacting different locations to accept our donation.Found the perfect location at 1103 Shawmut Ave New BedfordContributed our donation to Red Cross and Salvation Army.Back home excited with our achievement.

Actual Donating of Clothes

Trouble with finding a school that could fulfill our mission.Their donation exceeded our expectation.Difficulties in carrying the clothes to vehicles.Unexpected bad weather.Miscommunication with salvation Army employees.Finding the location to donate clothes.

Obstacles Faced

Oops!!!!!!

What we plan to doWhat we plan to stop doing

Manage time more wisely.Stop procrastinating.

Communicate with each other more frequently.Try not to take on more work than each team member can handle.

Delegate work fairly.Getting off topic in meetings.

Ask for help if needed.Stressing out over things that can be easily solved with teamwork.

Team Plan for Improvement

Lauren Contact ManagerMeeting CoordinatorKristinaClassroom Coordinator Wiki CoordinatorShannen Team LeaderSecretary/ Note TakerMagaly Photographer LilianeRecycling Tip

Individual Roles

Service to Community Partner(s)A close relationship with Marissa PerezContact with Winslow ElementaryContact with Lori Silveira and Paula Bailey

ARD Event(s)Assembly number one which was held on Americas recycle day.Assembly number two Taught students different ways to use recycled materialsGathered statistics of number of people we directly and indirectly impacted .

Community Involvement/Recycling Awareness, Education, and BehaviorWinslow Elementary student taught about the importance about recycling.

Sustainability-. The props used in our activities at our main event were made out of recyclable goods

Meet Project Criteria

Team Engagement Although we had problems and obstacles our engagement on the project helped us overcome all the obstacles and accomplish our goal as a team.

EncouragementOur team was made up by people from different countries and ages and at times it was hard to be on the same page. As a diverse team we needed to encourage each others to get our tasks completed.

Time ManagementWe learned together as a team that we need to take the initiative to work through the struggles of a task, rather than put them to the side and avoid completing them in a timely matter.

Healthy ConflictAfter getting to know each other and learning to work as a team. We learned to have healthy conflict and debate on our ideas and thoughts. Teamwork Lessons Learned

Goals Accomplished! Raised awareness to the young generation.Raised 1145 pieces of clothing. The classroom totals were as followsFifth grade classroom number one- 333 itemsFifth grade classroom number two- 253 itemsFourth gradeclassroom number one- 250 itemsFourth grade classroom number two- 150 itemsOverall total of 991 items (raised within one week in Winslow)Indirectly impact the community of New Bedford like parents, teachers and the actual people benefit from the clothing.Gain experience working as a team. Learned our strength and weakness and how to combine them to make the ultimate team.

Conclusion