First prize of plastic bag baskets, coasters, and plant pallets.
CAY HILL--A group of students who created plastic bag baskets, coasters, and plant pallets emerged winners of Learning Unlimited (LU) Preparatory School’s Upcycle Project Fair held on Friday last week.
The winning project was created by students Xenia Ahlip, Lilou Mouyal and Sanya Jandial.
Second prize: a guitar shelf from recycled guitar.
Third prize: Jeans upcycling.
Second place went to students Noor Yousef, Nathan Wijesiriwardana, Martin Seeman and Ipek Uysal who created a guitar shelf from a recycled guitar, table made from old ladder and licence plate.
The third prizes went to Luna Miceli and Savannah Ortega who did jeans upcycling, as well as to Justin Zhuo, Kavish Punjabi, Lucien Altier and Guo Jun He who made a bird feeder and fly trapper from plastic.
The award for best participation went to Michel Jasaron, Gaston Gautrot, Anne Kingma and Seybian Ortega.
Upcycling involves reusing an item in such a way that its value is increased. It is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials and useless or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or even far better environmental value. The Upcycling Fair was planned to encourage students and the community to find ways to reduce the amount of garbage thrown into landfills.
The main goal of the project was to inspire students to “use what you’ve got” and to move away from the constant buying of new things and spending money.
“We need to make full use of the resources we already have, rather than using them once and discarding them,” middle school coordinator Preeti Notani said. Notani is also LU’s Head of Science.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year only Grade 8 participated. Grades 6 and 7 received the opportunity to visit the event accompanied by their teachers. Parents did not attend the fair, but pictures can be viewed on the link
https://lupsscience.weebly.com/grade-8-physical-science.html
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank all parents for their constant support. Any further questions regarding upcycling projects, please do not hesitate to email me at
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,” Notani said.
She also explained that this year's Upcycle Fair was recorded by Culture Department Head Clara Reyes and her team and will become part of the Constitution Day Presentation. “One of the highlights of the presentation to them was – LU and Mrs. Notani strongly believe that we can promote our nation and build it strongly if every citizen believes in the 3 Rs – Reforestation, Recycling and Reuse,” Notani said.
