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Youth
Advisory Board
The Keep Knoxville Beautiful Youth Advisory Board is made up of
representatives from all high schools, public and private in Knox
County. The mission of the Youth Advisory Board is to "excite
the youth of today about the earth of tomorrow". The YAB
develops its own projects related to the mission of Keep Knoxville
Beautiful. To protect their privacy we will not name the
individual student members. If you wish to contact the Youth
Advisory Board just send an email inquiry to Keep Knoxville Beautiful.
Click here
to apply.
2006-2007 Tentative Plan
Keep Knoxville Beautiful is now accepting applications for the 2006-2007
Youth Advisory Board from public, private, and home schooled high school
students. Members will have the opportunity to work on several programs
including mixed paper recycling, litter awareness and prevention, Earth
Fest, and much more. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to
help improve their community while gaining leadership experience.
Students may apply directly but must have the signature of a
parent/guardian and a school administrator/teacher. The YAB will begin
meeting once it has participation from 50% of high schools, but
applications will be accepted until mid-October. Click here to apply.
2005-2006 Summary
In addition to participating in mixed paper recycling and Earth Fest,
Youth Advisory Board members helped recruit community members to
participate in the Great American Clean-Up, organized clean-ups at their
own schools, and worked on recording a YAB Podcast about their
activities.
2004-2005 Summary
Youth Advisory Board members had a major presence at Earthfest 2005,
helping to make the event nearly litter free with high rates of
recycling among the several thousand people attending the event.
YAB members also helped promote the Don't Throw Down on K-TOWN slogan at
their high schools by creating stencils to make the first generation of
Don't Throw Down t-shirts.
2003-2004 Summary
The following high schools participated: Austin East, Bearden, Carter,
Central, Farragut, Fulton, Gibbs, Halls, Karns, Knoxville Catholic,
Powell, South Doyle, Webb and West. The main project was to
develop a lesson plan to accompany a new driver litter-prevention
awareness video. The group also did a political collection project
after the local city elections.
2002-2003 Summary
The same schools participated the first year. The main project was
to promote the Knox County Schools mixed paper recycling program.
Students helped increase the awareness of the program, amounts of paper
recycled and helped the school system earn several thousand dollars in
revenue from paper sales. The group also did a bulb planting at
Charter Doyle Park in South Knoxville.
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Youth
Advisory Board members develop leadership and decision-
making skills.
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