Location: STEM Teaching and Learning Facility, 642 Red Cedar Road, East Lansing, MI 48824
Agenda
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM – Student Check-In
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM – Welcome/Plenary Session
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM – Sustainability Career Exhibits Open Explore the variety of career pathways available in sustainability by interacting with engaging, interactive exhibit tables led by sustainability professionals.
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM – Breakout Sessions & Field Experiences
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM – Lunch, Environmental Service Awards, 2025 Michigan Green School Awards, Guest Speaker
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM – Last visit to exhibitors, check out and departure
Morning Breakout Sessions Students explore engaging, interactive presentations led by sustainability professionals and student peers.
10:00 - 10:45 AM Breakout Sessions
Water Quality: Taking Action for Water Quality
Air and Energy: Understanding and Advancing Environmental Justice
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: School and Community Forest Opportunities
Materials Management: Overcoming Overconsumption
Systems Thinking: Learn to Lead: Tips for Youth-Led Stewardship Action
Climate Change: Creating your School Environmental Action Plan with the new SEA Guide
Student Project Presentations: Meet other students, share your current projects, and get inspired in this informal, discussion-based networking session
Educator Resources: EGLE Classroom Lending Station Demonstration
11:00 - 11:45 AM Breakout Sessions
Water Quality: Environmental Learning Through Games
Air and Energy: Understanding and Monitoring Air Quality in Your Community
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Explore Your Environment with a BioBlitz
Materials Management: Reducing Waste in Your Lunchroom
Systems Thinking: Connections between Human and Environmental Healthy
Climate Change: Evaluating your Schoolyard for Climate and Environmental Action Projects
Student Project Presentations: Meet other students, share your current projects, and get inspired in this informal, discussion-based networking session
Educator Resources: Confidence in Teaching Climate Change
Afternoon Breakout Sessions Students explore engaging, interactive presentations led by sustainability professionals and student peers.
1:00 - 1:45 PM Breakout Sessions
Water Quality: Preventing Great Lakes Marine Debris
Air and Energy: Learn to Complete an Energy Audit
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Farm to Family: Local Food Options
Materials Management: Preventing Pollution through Safe Waste Management
Systems Thinking: Exploring Green Job Pathways
Climate Change: Planning to Plant: Choosing Climate-Resilient Plants for your Projects
Student Project Presentations: Meet other students, share your current projects, and get inspired in this informal, discussion-based networking session
Educator Resources: Teaching Great Lakes Literacy
2:00 - 2:45 PM Breakout Sessions
Water Quality: Tips and Techniques for Monitoring Local Water Quality
Air and Energy: Domicology: The Science of Creating a Sustainable Built Environment
Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Not MiSpecies: Fighting Invasive Species in your Community
Materials Management: Making an Impact through School Recycling
Systems Thinking: Green Business: Entrepreneurship for the Environment
Climate Change: Waste Reduction as a Climate Solution
Student Project Presentations: Meet other students, share your current projects, and get inspired in this informal, discussion-based networking session
Educator Resources: Preparing Students for Green Careers
Morning Field Experiences Field experiences take place on MSU campus and surrounding community.
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Circular Solutions: MSU Recycling Center Tour (High School Students Only)
Talking Trash: Granger Landfill & Waste to Energy Facility Visit (ALL students welcome)
Aquatic Assessment: Water Quality Field Study (Middle School Students Only)
Roots & Rains: Walking Tour of MSU's Nature-Based Stormwater Solutions (ALL students welcome)
Safe to Savor: Food Safety and the Mobile Food Processing Lab (Middle School Students Only)
Farmland: Food, Justice, and Sovereignty Exhibit Tour and Program at Broad Art Museum (High School Students Only)
Digital Storytelling for the Environment with Michigan Learning Channel (ALL students welcome)
Afternoon Field Experiences Field experiences take place on MSU campus and surrounding community.
1:00 - 2:45 PM
Circular Solutions: MSU Recycling Center Tour (Middle School Students Only)
Growing Green: Urban Agriculture at the Hunter Park Garden House (ALL students welcome)
Aquatic Assessment: Water Quality Field Study (High School Students Only)
Dair Delight: Mobile Milk House and Dairy Store Tour (ALL students welcome)
Safe to Savor: Food Safety and the Mobile Food Processing Lab (High School Students Only)
Farmland: Food, Justice, and Sovereignty Exhibit Tour and Program at Broad Art Museum (Middle School Students Only)
Digital Storytelling for the Environment with Michigan Learning Channel (ALL students welcome)
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