Over the course of their year participating in CABLE, each Student Delegate is tasked with participating in an outreach event about the bioeconomy on their campus. This year, Student Delegate, Chelsea Tyus, from Louisiana State University participated in Super Science Saturday, a free science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education event for students in kindergarten to 12th grade.
On Saturday, October 27th, Chelsea set up a booth at Super Science Saturday with a goal of education kids about sustainability, bioproducts, and eliminatin single-use plastics. To do this, Chelsea got creative and let visitors to her booth make bags from old t-shirts. Repurposing an item into something that can have continued use is a wonderful demonstration of the mindset that contributes to a more sustainable future. With over 75 bags created from old t-shirts, Chelsea helped ignite a passion for creative thinking within the bioeconomy among students. Many parents of students also inquired about how to obtain instructions on making more bags from old shirts. Instruction can be found from NASA’s Climate Kids program.
We look forward to telling more stories about the creative ways Student Delegates spread the word about the emerging bioeconomy on their campus’!