Crista Cavicchio is a grade 8 special educator and a Green Team Captain at Bigelow Middle School. She sent in a list of all the sustainability related projects the school achieved during the 2025-2026 school year. Congratulations and thank you, to Christa and her team for all their hard work!
- First Wednesday Walk and Roll with Starburst incentive for kids who use sustainable transportation to school
- Educational poster making and posting May is Bike Month Raffle!
- Collect floor pencils (Green team–every three days)
- Collect cafeteria cans and bottles (Green team–every three days)
- Bike count (Green team–every three days)
- Fruit collection/food diversion every Wednesday (diverted over 1,000 pieces of fruit from the trash over5 months)
- Recycling Fridays (weather permitting–done by students)
- Recycle audit/”grades” (with two winning classrooms)
- Planted milkweed
- Earth Month Data Bulletin Board showing data from surveys and collections (pencils, cans, bikes, fruit)
- Grounds clean up and invasive plant removal
- Clean up Courtyard–in progress
- Educational flyers with videos for next year and upcoming Green Team members (ie: how to recycle etc.)–in progress
- End of year Locker Cleanout Day with Donation Bin (TBD)