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2025 Michigan Student Sustainability Summit

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025

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

1:00 PM - 2:45 PM – Breakout Sessions & Field Experiences

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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