Environmental Awards for Benedictine Kids

Benedictine students in the Pre-Vocational I program, under the guidance of their teacher Debi Williamson, have been involved in lots of activities that benefit the environment, especially by working with plants and trees. These are activites the students can think about and learn from, gaining the understanding that they can impact our world. It is something they can work on with their hands, keeping to their task, inside and outside, and at the end of the day they know they've accomplished something good for everyone.

And what is Benedictine all about, if not growth and making things better for everyone?

At morning assembly on Monday, May 3rd, the representative from the Maryland State Department of Natural Resources presented the class with the PLANT Award (People Loving And Nurturing Trees) for their work in planting and caring for Benedictine's trees.

 

On Wednesday, May 12, The Pre-Voc I class was named "Future Environmental Stars of the Month" by WMDT Channel 47 in Salisbury, sponsored by Mountaire Farms, Inc. Roger Marino, Corporate Director of Community Relations for Mountaire, came to the Benedictine classroom to visit with the students, see their work, and to present teacher Debi Williamson with the award. Sister Jeannette was on hand to offer her congratulations on this worthwhile project. "The kids love to work with the plants in the dirt," said Sister Jeannette, "and we all love our nice green campus. This gives them an opportunity to know they are a part of improving our world."

The students show their seedlings to the channel 47 film crew for that evening's news.
One of Debi's projects is the Maryland Big Tree Program, through which Benedictine has been recognized as having many of the state's largest specimens of various tree species on our campus.