REPULSE BAY
A group of young students took advantage of a local recycling challenge to earn a little extra cash for their school in Repulse Bay this past month.
The entire Grade 6 class at Tusarvik School in Repulse Bay celebrate as they prepare to stuff in the final bags to fill a Sea-Can transport container with collected pop cans for the Co-op challenge this past month. - photo courtesy of Maren Roberts
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Students in Tusarvik's 2012 Grade 5 class started collecting pop cans as part of a community-environmental initiative.
Teacher Maren Roberts said the students managed to fill about one-quarter of a Se-Can transport container this past year, and the project continued with the beginning of the new school semester this year.
She said the same group of children, now in Grade 6, who began the project in 2012 are continuing this year.
"Through contests and collections we managed to fill an entire sea can with pop cans," said Roberts.
"We haven't actually received the money yet, but the manager at our local Co-op told me we will be receiving $1,500 for filling the sea can.
"I, basically, told my class once we receive the money, I would be giving them a class party and then we'd be giving the rest to the school."
The Tusarvik class distributed collection boxes around the community for people to deposit their pop cans, and then the students would make the rounds to collect them.
Boxes were also put in every classroom at the school for the students to collect.
Roberts said every student in the group did their share with the project.
She said the class also held various contests and people would bring their bags of pop cans from home to the school.
"All the kids were involved in the contests, and the project was, kind of, part of their social studies unit.
"We did a citizenship unit, and helping to clean up the community was the project we choose to demonstrate our community citizenship.
"I was told we were the first student group in Nunavut to complete a full sea can.
"Whether we were or not, filling a Sea-Can full of empty pop cans was a nice accomplishment."
