How to Become a SC Green Step School
Form a staff "Green Team."
Click here to view the Powerpoint presentation "Starting a Green Team at School" by DHEC's Paul Wojoski from the June 24, 2009 Take Action Today workshop.
Attend a SC Green Steps Workshop. (Check the Green Steps calendar or host a workshop in your community.)
Outline a vision for at least four environmental projects your team would like to establish over time.
Decide which project you would like pursue first. Select a project that could serve as a model to other schools in your community.
Submit the Green Steps Schools Application detailing plans for the first project and outlining the vision for future steps. E-mail your completed application to heidi@keepthemidlandsbeautiful.org.
Request a mentor for your project. You may suggest someone you may already be working with.
Resubmit your plan after working with your mentor with the goal of making your project significant, well-established, and sustainable.
Post your projects on your school website and send us that address.
Submit annual documentation of each established project including a detailed report and digital pictures. Be sure we have permission to print any student pictures you send.
Send representative(s) to the annual SC Green Step Schools Award Ceremony at the June “Take Action” Workshop in Columbia.
Plaques are given with stickers to honor each sustaining project. Schools must establish two projects before earning a plaque.