Campus Beautification Day

Over 100 Northwood students, along with teachers and parents, came together at Northwood to landscape, dig and mulch for the second annual Campus Beautification Day on Saturday, March 20, from 9 a.m. to noon.

The tasks for Campus Beautification were weeding planters in the front parking lot and near the upper and lower quads, filling buckets with mulch and spreading it over the planters, cleaning windows, planting flowers and landscaping by the 900 building. Many students brought their own garden gloves and shovels to help with the process. The main faculty organizers for this event were Assistant Principal Matt Pate, science teacher Matt Brown and Activities Director Sandy Banks.

“[Planning the event] was a joint effort,” said Pate. “ [Student Forum president] Rianne Campbell got Student Forum involved, and Mr. Banks, Mr. Brown and I determined what would be done.”

Campus Beautification Day provided students an opportunity to come together and improve the condition of their school. According to Pate, both this and last year’s Campus Beautification Days have helped make the school look significantly cleaner and better landscaped. Although students felt that the event offered a good opportunity to contribute to the school, many were tired by the heat as well as the hard gardening work the event entailed.

“These were some of the longest three hours of my life,” said junior Tina Kim, “but they were for a good cause.”

Northwood’s Key Club and CSF rewarded participating students with community service hours and points, respectively. AP Environmental Science classes earned field hours. Overall, students and faculty alike felt that Campus Beautification was both fun and productive.

“We got a lot done in merely three hours,” said Pate.