The coveted Coastal Champion Awards are given annually to dedicated community, business and youth leaders throughout the San Diego whose outstanding accomplishments have helped to protect and restore our coastal environment.
Coastal Champion Youth Honoree
Fish for Thought is an environmental art project that raises awareness about the negative impact trash has on our oceans and marine life in elementary school students, their families and the community. Mara Bickett, Becky Deller and Sara Wingate, parents from Del Mar Hills Academy, conceived of a project in which grade K-6 schoolchildren would collect trash from the beach and home and turn it into beautiful artwork to highlight the problem of trash on our beaches. At an educational assembly, children discussed the problems caused by plastic in the ocean and the need to reduce, reinvent, reuse, and recycle. More than 400 Del Mar elementary school students worked with recycled trash artist Rodrigo, aka, Rodney McCoubrey to create their masterpieces on used recycled wood fish "blanks.” With help from the Del Mar Lifeguards, the fish were mounted on sticks and planted every 10 feet, lining the one-mile length of Del Mar beach. On May 30th, the project culminated in the "Fish Sticks" exhibition, accompanied by a community beach clean-up, and brought a poignant visual message about environmentalism to the greater Del Mar community. Coastkeeper is pleased to recognize Fish for Thought for educating the community and empowering students to become the environmental stewards of tomorrow .
check out this clip http://www.blip.tv/file/2767765
I was out of town for the awards celebration so of course i had these beautiful woman receive it. What an effort/fun project and a truly amazing group of people that helped put it all together
Muchismas Gracias !!!
How to describe beautiful = Mara, Becky, and Sara Oh yeah!!!
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