Students for Environmental Quality (S.E.Q.)

This club is dedicated to the improvement of our local environment. The group meets to work on projects that focus on the local ecology. Members seek to explore a two-way involvement with the community in an effort to improve our surroundings and promote awareness.

l SCEF Grant Culminates in The History of SEQ Booklet...More...

The BHS club Students for Environmental Quality (SEQ) recently completed a research project culminating in a booklet describing the SEQ history of environmental activism! Using a $3,000 grant from the South Country Education Foundation (SCEF), the club has published a beautiful color-illustrated twenty-eight page booklet titled The History of SEQ, narrating its own birth and evolution spanning almost forty years...

Meetings
Every other Thursday  - Activity Period 2:00-2:30pm
in Room 262

Bulletin Board Location
Second floor  Room 262

Activities
Club Day
Homecoming
Safe Halloween
The Great Town of Brookhaven Cleanup
Canoe/Kayak Trips
Environmental Summer Camp
Carmans River- Waterway Clean up   
Canoe/Kayak @ Beaver Dam Creek,
Carmans River, or Peconic River during fall and spring
Guest Speakers re: Cornell Cooperative, Post-Morrow Foundation, The History of S.E.Q. project, Pine Barrens Comm.
GPS training to locate Storm water sites that impact Beaverdam Creek watershed areas
Alewife Watch by Beaverdam Creek
Beaverdam Creek Watershed Management Plan
Visit the Hamlet Organic Garden
Runs Recycling Program at the High School
Post-Morrow Official Clubhouse Cleanup
Trail-Building on Bay Rd/Edgar Rd w/ Post Morrow Foundation
Attend South Shore Estuary Reserve Council Meetings to stay current with the human effects on our environment

Community Service
Member of the South Shore Estuary Reserve Council
Work with local Post-Morrow local environmental group on local projects such as replanting of native grasses along Beaver Dam Creek
Expand and Coordinate the BHS School Recycling Program
Promote environmental issues awareness among school and local community members
Recycling Drives at Home Athletic Events

Fund Raisers
Candy Sale/Candy Gram
Car Wash
Water/Soda sale at the first soccer game

Trips

Visit office on SSERC Tour of West Bays/Nassau County
Walking tour of local street re: recent S.C. Project to I.D. drainage sites sensitive to the health of
Great South Bay
Maintain SEQ Clubhouse on Post-Morrow owned property off of Beaver Dam Creek
Pine Barrens Comm- Guided Trip to trails

 

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