POLLUTION PREVENTERS

Team Pollution Preventers are part of a seventh grade class at Harper Woods Middle School in Michigan called FutureThink. It is considered to be an achievement to be a part of this class since you need to have certain grades and attendance records. Recently, we have been studying water quality in class. Since we have found it very interesting, we put together Team Pollution Preventers to learn more. We jumped on this opportunity to extend our learning beyond looking at just water quality parameters by building a new and different buoy that yields data on pollution. Our teacher was able to find separate funding of $1,200 through COSEE GREAT LAKES to help pay for the cutting-edge technology that we introduced to the Great Lakes... With how the modern world is advancing, it only seems as though pollution will continue to rise regardless of recycling. This is why the Pollution Preventers decided to introduce BIF (Basic Information Flotation) and EVA plates (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate plates),..