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| A few Tahoma Students and Staff at the Premiere |
Last night was the third annual premiere of the
Watershed Report, it’s also my third year being a part of the Watershed Report
Student Leadership Team. I have been growing with the Watershed Report program
for these past few years. Our program has developed a strong template for
reporting sustainability trends. We repeat a certain annual rhythm, or process,
each year. Each year we refine this rhythm with the ultimate goal of
replicating it in other communities. Repeat, refine, replicate.
At the same time I am gaining knowledge and shifting
mental models towards sustainability.
As my involvement with the Watershed Report has grown, I
have discovered my role and mission in this program. I am the template for
future watershed students. Each year that I repeat the annual rhythm of the
report I am refining my knowledge and skills. The ultimate goal for me is to
replicate my success in this program with other students. I am the first
student to be a part of our new internship program on the Watershed Report
Internship program through Bellevue College. My internship is an internship on
developing internships for our new program. This fall I will create the
templates for future internships, and next summer we will repeat the
internships with other students. My templates will then be refined and can be
replicated for years to come. Repeat, refine replicate.
Last
night’s premiere was my chance to see other students presenting in front of
large crowd for the first. As I was watching them introducing this years
reports, I could picture myself up their three years ago squeezing the podium
with my clammy hands. I think I was more nervous than they look. These days I
feel much more confident when speaking, and it’s simply because of the skills I
have refined through my work on the Watershed Report team. I’m excited to head
into a fourth year on the team as a leader and template for other students.
At the end of our presentation I
met an Environmental Engineer from King County who was really impressed with
our work. Even more so, he was personally excited about our work because he was
doing the same thing 35 years ago. He
was in Jr. High School using a black and white snap shot camera, cassette tapes
for sound, and little plastic note cards as a teleprompter. Talking with him
was like going back in time a little bit. It was a heartfelt experience to
speak with someone who’s lived their life doing the work I am just beginning. I
think it was just as great for him to see that the environmental he began in
Jr. High has kept momentum in the future generations and the ambassadors of
future possibilities.
Blog Post by By Cassandra, Senior at Tahoma High School
President THS Sustainability Ambassadors club
Member of the Watershed Report student leadership team
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