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NCTV17: Area students pitch sustainability ideas at inaugural BLAST event in Naperville

Will Payne, Matt Lauterbach, & Kim Pirc, NCTV17

Apr 23, 2024

Area high school students recently took part in the inaugural Building Leadership Around Sustainable Transformation, or BLAST, event at the DuPage Children’s Museum.

“We wanted to elevate and highlight students that are already working on solving environmental problems. but we also wanted to support them and encourage them,” said Cathy Clarkin, Chair of the Naperville Environment & Sustainability Task Force [and executive director of Accelerate Climate Solutions].


"As we’ve seen today in BLAST, there’s so many different ways of action," said Grace Brady, winner in the individual project category.


Read the full article and watch the video here.

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