ELMS Students remove a TON of Trash - Literally!

Elkridge Landing Middle School Students Provide Service to the Community

Last spring, on a bright, sunny, Friday morning, over 200 ELMS students, teachers and parent volunteers helped clean-up approximately a one-mile section of Deep Run located in the Patapsco State Park near Elkridge. This clean-up effort was the culmination of the 8th grade Service Learning Project that included researching the importance of this area and understanding the impact pollution has on rivers.

The ELMS students were organized in various teams consisting of: eight clean-up crews, one first-aid crew and one delivery team. This amazing group of volunteers collected an estimated 7,743 pounds of trash from this section of the Patapsco River watershed. Ms. Garland's clean-up crew won the prize for most trash collected that day - they collected over one ton of trash! Special thanks goes to all of the students, teachers, parents, the Patapsco Heritage Greenway members and the Howard County roadway workers who helped make this event the biggest and most successful clean-up along Race Road ever!

Hit the link below to see a photo album of this Service Learning event. I want to thank Betsy McMillion for helping us organize this event and for taking the pictures for us.

Elkridge Landing Middle School Students Provide Service to the Community