Mia Reichert (age:17)
Stephanie Cozza (age:17)
Our project goals are to utilize the resources locally and globally in order to convince businesses, schools and community members to reduce their CO2 emissions and make a positive impact on Polar Bear habitats globally.
We intend to complete a series of small projects in addition to working with businesses in efforts to drastically reduce CO2 emissions.
7th grade Outreaches!
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 21:39During our 7th grade outreaches with Ms. Walbush's pre-biology classes, Mia, Steph and Molly worked with 7th graders to educate them on the effect climate change has on Polar...
[Read More]Bands for Bears SUCCESS!
Friday, December 31, 2010 - 20:39During "Bands for Bears" our team decided to have several local popular bands play at a concert for us that allowed us to raise money to plant trees and ultimately preserve...
[Read More]Bands for Bears Progress
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 18:26Today members Molly, Mia and Ms. George met with band members from Call to Attraction and Daylight Strike to discuss details of the upcoming show "Bands for Bears"! This...
[Read More]BANDS FOR BEARS!!!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 22:01Our "Bands for Bears" event is officially in progress!! After weeks of arrangements and scheduling, Project Polar Bear's team Bear Necessities has started advertising our...
[Read More]Making a difference at Ben Avon's Light Up Night!
Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 23:10Team Bear Necessities went to Ben Avon's Light Up Night where we talked to various community members, collected pledges and received donations for our tree planting campaign...
[Read More]A Green Thanksgiving!
Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 22:49Molly has continued to reduce her CO2 emissions by being a vegetarian! This Thanksgiving, she proudly made Tofurky for herself and her neighbor (who she converted into...
[Read More]November 13th Tundra Connections at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium!
Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 22:40On Saturday November 13th, Molly attended the Tundra Connections event held by the Pittsburgh Zoo. During this event, she was able to watch Ms. Margie Mark's presentation on...
[Read More]More Meetings!
Saturday, November 27, 2010 - 22:14We've met multiple times this year and we've finally got an outline out together for our project! We hope to continue our work and complete all of our ideas very soon!
[Read More]More Progress...
Sunday, November 7, 2010 - 16:49After many weeks of planning, team Bearnecessities will be having several outreaches within the next week. These outreaches will be presented to middle and high school age...
[Read More]Early Meeting Progress
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 16:10So far, team BearNecessities has had 3 meetings to plan the actions we intend to take during the duration of the project. Our first meeting was with the Avonworth High School...
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