Chapel Hill High School has been named one of five winners of the Green Your School Challenge, which encourages teens to use technology to generate awareness and have a positive impact on the environment.
Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and DoSomething.org, more than 2,500 schools led eco-friendly projects. Chapel Hill High students used Facebook to ignite discussions around climate change; hosted Earth Week events such as “Recycling Spies Day,†which rewarded students who were seen recycling; and constructed a 12-by-12-foot cube representing the amount of carbon dioxide saved by recycling a week’s worth of newspapers.
The students will receive $1,000 grants for the programs and HP Pavilion dm1 notebooks.