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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A handmade Fresno sign, visuals of Earth and a fig made from integrative bags.
These are conscionable a fewer of the originative ways students astatine Duncan Polytechnical High School are turning garbage near down into lessons for others.
Biology teacher Kati Begen led the way.
"We wanted to instrumentality the contented with the trash and marque it into thing beauteous and meaningful to rise consciousness for the assemblage to marque tiny sustainable changes," Begen said.
It's each portion of a concern with National Geographic Citizen's Science Projects.
Students collected information based connected what types of trash were near connected the crushed astir field and entered it into an app that goes to Nat Geo.
"Scientists each implicit the satellite tin entree the information that our students collected," Begen said.
Once the information was collected, the people turned the trash into artwork, poems and videos filled with what they learned.
Genesis Flores and her 2 partners created a robot made retired of trash that collects trash.
"Her sanction was Linda. She has a small bow," Genesis said.
Everything "Linda" is made of was recovered outside.
And radical tin larn conscionable by looking astatine her.
"There's accusation astir present successful Fresno astir what we tin bash to cleanable up aft ourselves," Genesis said.
Megan Xiong and her 2 partners utilized the trash to make a diorama.
The histrion apical is made of integrative bags and the rainbow is retired of integrative vessel caps.
"We drew their faces bittersweet due to the fact that it's the satellite crumbling down due to the fact that of each the trash and pollution, you know," Megan said.
Megan and Genesis some accidental they were excited to spouse with National Geographic and took distant invaluable lessons.
"At the extremity of the day, it's america that are damaging it, truthful we request to bash thing astir it," Megan said.
All of the hard enactment led up to Tuesday erstwhile students enactment connected a showcase successful the school's room to amusement different students their projects and thatch those students what they learned.
You tin find the student's information by visiting this website. Click connected the 'Organization' paper and prime 'National Geographic Education.'
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