Action for SDGs: High School students engage to raise awareness about the SDGs at Cottonwood Festival in Flintridge, California
High School students from Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy joined together to have a session about the Sustainable Development Goals and set up a hub at the Cottonwood Festival in Flintridge, in which they aimed to raise awareness about the Global Goals.
They managed to spread the knowledge through the session and eventually filled in several MyWorld2030 surveys.
Most of the participants were new to the global goals. They found out SDGs are of crucial importance in their everyday lives, to the point that when filling the survey they could not even choose 6 out of 17 because they all mattered to them.
The hub was focusing on SDG13 Climate Action, which was the most related to the course the students are currently undertaking. They created pins of the SDGs by recycling plastic bottles caps, showing their engagement in climate action.
Students from the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy marking the recycled bottle caps with SDG numbers from 1-17.“I just learned about these goals today!”
One of the participants after visiting the student-made hub at the Festival.
There has been a lot of curiosity around the SDGs, people felt the need to know more, asked for further information and eventually engaged towards their achievement and evaluation through the MYWorld2030 survey.
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