Mid-Carolina High School has been awarded the highest value grant that Champions of the Environment offers! The $2,500 grant is a program to help schools protect the natural world and boost environmental awareness. This program is funded by DHEC, Dominion Energy, and Sylvamo. They award multiple grants at different monetary levels each year to schools who submit write-ups about the projects they are working on that help the environment.
MCHS is already a certified “Green Steps School,” completing many different projects that help to better the environment and increase awareness; including our Recycled Art projects (Art Teacher Coleen Makoski,) Adopt a Highway (JROTC Instructor Major James Taylor,) Small-Scale Recycling (Receptionist Phyllis Chebbi), Bluebird Trail, and Litter Sweeps. Green Steps Lead Teacher Kaitlyn Fugel has been working with DHEC, SCDNR, Keep Newberry Beautiful, and Newberry County Soil and Water Conservation to make sure MCHS is continuing to grow “greener.”
The grant this year will go towards creating a pollinator garden on our campus using plants native to our area as well as developing an anti-litter campaign with educational materials to share out to the school and community. The project we are most excited about is creating a new tradition at our school of planting a tree in the spring for our graduating class to help beautify our campus!
