On April 22, 2026, an Earth Day lunch meeting was held in the lecture hall, organized by Michael Bronshteyn and science teacher Emily Sneed. The purpose of the meeting was to highlight the environmental clubs offered at CHS and to recruit underclassmen to continue their initiatives as current presidents prepare to graduate. Sneed incentivized all her students to attend it, classes being encouraged to stay for the entire meeting with the promise of earning five extra credit points toward their grade.
The event focused on connecting students with opportunities to get involved in sustainability efforts on campus. With many club presidents graduating this year, the meeting served as a way to ensure that these projects continue in the future.
Senior Noelle McMorris explained that the meeting aimed to introduce students to a variety of environmental efforts and encourage participation within school clubs.
“I think it was basically to showcase to students who are interested in the environment, especially with today being Earth Day, to show them all of the different environmental initiatives that are going on at the school,” McMorris said. “And how they can get involved, especially for underclassmen, to help take over as the seniors are graduating.”
McMorris, who serves as Vice President of Pencil to Planet, also represented her club during the meeting and shared its goals and activities.
“We spoke about what our organization is and some of the main things that we do for anyone interested in joining,” McMorris said. “We talked about the recycled crafts that we do at the Guadalupe Center, our environmental art competition, and our composting program.”
The other clubs present at the meeting included P-22, which focuses on informing others about the mountain lion named P-22 and the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, as well as Bags for Benches, which collects plastic bags to be recycled into benches.
Sneed emphasized that the meeting was designed to preserve student-led initiatives.
“Today’s meeting was about different sustainable clubs that these seniors who are leaving have created,” Sneed said. “These seniors are very passionate about these projects, and what they want is for it to continue on.”
She also highlighted the variety of environmental causes represented at the event.
“One was about P-22, another is about sustainable art, and another one was about Bags for Benches, about collecting plastic,” Sneed said.
Ultimately, the meeting served as both a celebration of environmental work and a call to action for underclassmen.
“We had a giant lecture today recruiting freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to hopefully take on these clubs and projects to keep them living on,” Sneed said.
By encouraging new leadership and participation, the Earth Day event helped ensure that CHS’s environmental initiatives will continue to grow in the years ahead.
