| Earth Day Celebration Returns to Hancock- Hamline Collaborative |  |  | | Students at Hancock-Hamline play learning games created by students of Ms Grostephen |
By Glynis Grostephan, Terrance Ollie-Forliti and Amy
Proefrock
Hancock Student Advisor
Hancock Student Editors
It’s back!!! After a one-year hiatus, the 10th Earth Day Festival will be held May 5, 2008 on Old Main Lawn from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Our last Earth Day Festival was in 2006. Even though it was chilly, we still had fun.
Earth Day - April 22 - was proclaimed a holiday in 1970 and marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Over 20 million people participated in the first  | | SEM (Schoolwide Enrichment) students research topics and create learning games for all students. |
Earth Day in the U.S. Fast forward to Earth Day 2007: an estimated one billion people participated in activities all over the planet! Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities.
Our Earth Day Festival began in 1998 with a collaboration of three Hamline University Student Congress members and the Gifted Services teacher, Glynis Grostephan. The vision was to promote the collaboration between Hancock
and Hamline and to provide a service-learning  | | Students learn about the Earth and environment through student created learning games |
opportunity for students and faculty to become environmentally responsible citizens. This year’s vision is to increase participation by Hamline students and staff in providing displays
or games that highlight environmental issues or concepts, and to showcase the Hancock-Hamline Collaboration at the Earth Day Festival.
Everyone is invited to participate in the hands-on activities. There are interesting facts at every booth and every game teaches you something about the 5 R’s: “Reduce, Reuse, React, Reject, and Recycle.” Everyone  | | Students learn to reuse scraps of paper rather than to throw them into the garbage. You are never too young to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink! |
who attends will
get a free sno-cone! If you would like to get involved in this year’s Earth Day
Festival, please contact Glynis Grostephan at 651-293- 8715 or via e-mail at glynis.grostephan@spps.org, or contact Megan Anderson at 651-523-2483 or manderson43@ hamline.edu.
Thank you to the following sponsors of this year’s Earth Day Festival: Saint
Paul Public Schools Community Education Service-Learning Program/Commu-
nity Power Grant and Hancock-Hamline University Collaborative Mini-Grant.
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