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Structure and History of SAVE
The Start:
About 10 years ago, SAVE began as a group of about 30 high school students as primarily a recycling club.
Members:
SAVE has transformed into a student run group with immense community involvement. It currently consists of approximately 200 student members.
Structure:
• Student Run
• Everyone has one vote, including the Advisor
• No elected official leaders or officers
• Any member can assume a leadership role by attending Leadership Council meetings held weekly
• Decision-making is done at general meetings which are held monthly
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Paul F. Detweiler & Sons
Indian Creek Electric
Northern Montgomery
County Recycling
Commission
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CONNECTIONS
Connecting Community, Education and the Environment
The new sustainable classroom called CONNECTIONS can hold up to 100 people at a time and can accommodate our larger events and meetings. It took over two years to raise the funds and to get the volunteer help to complete the building. Paul F. Detweiler & Sons worked side by side with SAVE and over 20 businesses to help create the building. Currently powered by solar panels, CONNECTIONS serves as a laboratory to evaluate different energy forms as well as a second classroom for the Environmental classes at the high school. Most importantly, it serves as a community meeting place for outside groups. Designed by students and created by architect Jack Althouse, the building is a model of passive solar design and energy efficiency. Inside, the north wall is beautifully decorated with a 30 foot long mosaic made from recycled materials. Artists in Action, a community artist group worked with 2nd graders from across the school district to create this wonderful design.
Self-Guided Tours: Promoting community awareness through education is a priority of SAVE. Therefore, SAVE members decided that the trails through the wooded area of SEEC should be used for educational purposes. Informational signs are scattered throughout the trails to help visitors learn a little about our local environment. This self-guided tour teaches about everything from plants and animals to pond life and succession!
Constructed Wetlands: These wetlands were created when the school district made plans to construct a retention basin to collect run-off water. SAVE worked with local officials, soil scientists, engineers, and the school district to redesign the retention basin to include three small ponds. SAVE introduced native plants to the area and students constantly monitor the water quality to maintain a
healthy ecosystem. The area not only functions as a retention basin, but also as a working laboratory and educational site.
Other features of SEEC include: Memorial Ponds with quite sitting area; over 10 trails; outdoor classrooms; a pavilion; and a bird blind, all within a variety of natural ecosystems. SAVE also constructed a greenhouse using a rammed-earth design (discarded tires and soil) which serves as a native plant nursery.
Night Hike: In October, SAVE sponsors a very popular special program for the community. Hundreds of children and their families enter the Environmental Center where their guided walk through candlelit trails begins. Stations are located throughout the trails where costumed SAVE members tell Native American stories. The night ends with roasting marshmallows over campfires and refreshments. Children can also play games and win prizes at the carnival before or after their walk.
Recycling Days: Working together with local waste haulers and townships, SAVE holds three recycling days per year. The fall and spring recycling days are the largest in the area, with each collecting over 20 tons of materials in 4 hours! Items collected include aluminum cans, paper, cardboard, scrap metal, tires, ink cartridges, car batteries, and electronics. In the past, SAVE has worked with a variety of organizations to collect items for special purposes. In January, SAVE works with Franconia Township to hold a Christmas tree recycling day at the Franconia Community Park.
SAVE Hotline: The SAVE Hotline is available for any community member to call in with a question about SAVE, recycling, or any other aspect of the environment.
SAVE members will attempt to answer questions to the best of their ability. The SAVE Hotline phone number is 215-723-4989.
River Clean-Up: SAVE members worked together with over 200 other volunteers including members of high school environmental clubs and youth groups to clean the Delaware River. Working together in canoes, the group cleaned approximately a 40 mile stretch of the river from Easton to Yardley.!
The Start
Members
Structure
Student Environmental Education Campus
General Information
Project EFFECT
Self-Guided Tours
Constructed Wetlands
Other Features
SAVE Programs and Education
Spreading Information
Night Hike
Recycling Days
SAVE Hotline
River Clean-Up
Environmental Internship
Grants & Awards
Previous
SEEC began when SAVE members took control of a 7 acre vacant lot on the grounds of West Broad Street Elementary School and converted it into an independent environmental education center. SEECs grounds currently consist of Project EFFECT, Connections, and Constructed Wetlands.
SAVE's Environmental Demonstration Home
On average, Americans spend over 90% of their lives indoors. Astonished by this statistic, the members of SAVE felt that the best influence they could have on their community was to teach them simple ways to transform their homes into more environmentally friendly ones. Completed in 1998, Project EFFECT( Environmentally Friendly Facility Exploring Conservation Technology) is a modern home designed to model the latest in environmental technologies and practices. The facility serves as a demonstration home, classroom, lab facility and meeting house. It was initiated, planned, funded and built by the volunteer efforts of student members of SAVE and the assistance of over 60 local businesses.
Three Purposes:
•Demonstrate practical uses of environmental products and technologies within a home setting
• Used as a community meeting place
• A classroom to learn about environmental topics.
Promoting community awareness through education is a priority of SAVE. Therefore, SAVE members decided that the trails through the wooded area of SEEC should be used for educational purposes. Informational signs are scattered throughout the trails to help visitors learn a little about our local environment. This self-guided tour teaches about everything from plants and animals to pond life and succession!
These wetlands were created when the school district made plans to construct a retention basin to collect run-off water. SAVE worked with local officials, soil scientists, engineers, and the school district to redesign the retention basin to include three small ponds. SAVE introduced native plants to the area and students constantly monitor the water quality to maintain a healthy ecosystem. The area not only functions as a retention basin, but also as a working laboratory and educational site.
Other features of SEEC
Memorial Ponds with quiet sitting area; over 10 trails; outdoor classrooms; a pavilion; and a bird blind, all within a variety of natural ecosystems. SAVE also constructed a greenhouse using a rammed-earth design (discarded tires and soil) which serves as a native plant nursery.
In October, SAVE sponsors a very popular special program for the community. Hundreds of children and their families enter the Environmental Center where their
guided walk through candlelit trails begins. Stations are located throughout the trails where costumed SAVE members tell Native American stories. The night ends with roasting marshmallows over campfires and refreshments. Children can also play games and win prizes at the carnival before or after their walk.
Working together with local waste haulers and townships, SAVE holds three recycling days per year. The fall and spring recycling days are the largest in the area, with each collecting over 20 tons of materials in 4 hours! Items collected include aluminum cans, paper, cardboard, scrap metal, tires, ink cartridges, car batteries, and electronics. In the past, SAVE has worked with a variety of organizations to collect items for special purposes. In January, SAVE works with Franconia Township to hold a Christmas tree recycling day at the Franconia Community Park.
The SAVE Hotline is available for any community member to call in with a question about SAVE, recycling, or any other aspect of the environment. SAVE members will attempt to answer questions to the best of their ability. The SAVE Hotline phone number is 215-723-4989.
SAVE members worked together with over 200 other volunteers including members of high school environmental clubs and youth groups to clean the Delaware River. Working together in canoes, the group cleaned approximately a 40 mile stretch of the river from Easton to Yardley!
Environmental Education Internship
Thanks to SAVE members work on Project EFFECT, the Souderton Area School District had the opportunity to create a unique educational program called Environmental Education Internship. Each year 4 to 8 Souderton Area High School seniors maintain the SEEC campus, help organize many SAVE events and teach environmental lessons to elementary students throughout the district. The interns plan a lesson for the elementary students to help educate them about the environment. By teaching elementary school students, children can learn about the environment at an early age and apply this knowledge throughout their lives.
SAVE believes in sharing its goals and mission with everyone ranging from the elementary schools to the community to public officials. One of the ways to do this is by presenting at conferences, giving speeches, and even appearing on television.
Local: SAVE has done numerous assemblies about ideas ranging from recycling to the rain forest and even SAVE itself. SAVE also speaks to many Community Groups and opens the SAVE house for community meetings and tours.
State: On the state level, SAVE has presented at many conferences including PAEE, the Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education.
National: Traveling across the country, SAVE presented as far away as the Project Based Learning Conference in San Francisco.
Television: With credits like the Discovery Channel, SAVE has been seen around the country. The ABC program Fast Forward included a segment about SAVE, Project Effect, and the Environmental Education Internship program. It is the latest of 11 different TV appearances for the group. SAVE is also featured on a show that was distributed to every middle school in the country.
SAVE members have given over 30 presentations at the local, state and national levels!
Awards and Grants
As SAVE has grown, others have come to recognize the extent of what SAVE members have accomplished. Due to this increasing recognition, SAVE has been privileged to receive a multitude of awards and grants.
Awards
Presidential Environmental Youth Award presented by President George Bush for outstanding achievement in environmental protection services
Youth Venture/MTV International Award for our work on using solar chimneys for low cost comfort system in third world homes
Environmental Excellence Award
Presented by the Anheuser-Busch Corporation names Project EFFECT the best student environmental project in the country
Distinguished Community Service Award
Presented by the Montgomery County Recycling Commission Commitment
Sustainability Award presented by EarthFest
Tribute Of Appreciation from the Schuylkill Action Network for leadership, innovation and dedication to source water protection
Presented by the Elmwood Park Zoo for helping to preserve the habitats of North American animals
Community Service Award
From the Indian Valley Chamber of Commerce
Kids Making A Difference Award
From the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Excellence in Energy and Environmental Programs Award presented by the Sustainable Energy Fund Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Education Award presented by the Elmwood Park Zoo
Presented by the Allentown Morning Call
Letter of Recognition
From Pennsylvania Governor
Citation of Achievement
From the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Senate of Pennsylvania Citation
Presented by the Senate of Pennsylvania
Proclamation
From the Mayor of Souderton
Certificate of Merit
From the Perkiomen Valley Watershed Association
Milton W. DeLancey Youth Award
From PSATS (Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors)
Outstanding Project Award
For Project EFFECT presented by Partnership TMA
Excellence in Recycling
From NMCRC (Northern Montgomery County Recycling Commission)
Grants: SAVE has been awarded numerous grants ranging from $500 to $10,000. Organizations which provided grants to SAVE include: PA Department of Environmental Protection, Growing Greener Grant, Program, Philadelphia Clean Cities, Sustainable Energy Fund, Northern Montgomery County Recycling Commission,
Contact Information
S.A.V.E.
Students Against Violating the Earth
Souderton Area High School
Souderton, PA 18964
215-723-4989