About Us

We are students in the Gifted and Talented Program in grades 3-5 at Spring Creek Elementary, in Laramie, Wyoming. We started this project in late 2020, after we became very concerned about the amount of litter polluting our beautiful city. 
If you want to read some newspaper articles about how the project started, you can find them here: 
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We hope this project snowballs and involves more members of our community, including business owners, concerned citizens, the city council, and other Laramie classrooms and schools.  



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