CHESTER — Eighth-graders at Chester Academy took on an environmental task and created projects to highlight issues affecting the Earth.
The students worked in teams and invited other grade levels to come to the school's cafetorium to see displays on global warming, over-population, acid rain, habitat loss, and alternative energy sources.
Joey Parisi and Chris Dunn joined forces to create a display on the effects of air pollution on the environment. As other students and staff roamed through the countless displays set up on tables, Parisi and Dunn were prepared to offer information and statistics on pollution and what it is doing to the planet.
The pair agreed they chose a good topic to share with school visitors that day.
"It's a major thing that a lot of people don't understand," Dunn said.
Rows of tri-fold poster boards stood to offer glances and images of deforestation, conservation and wildlife.
To get their point across in a big visual way, Cam McLeod and his friend, Alex Pacocha, took a video camera in hand to produce a film about over population.
The boys said they had worked on a previous school project using a video and thought this work would again lend itself to a movie.
Both McLeod and Pacocha stood near the television waiting to offer the homemade movie to passersby. The film was a hit, they added, as younger students stopped by often.
