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Over 700 students from Guy Benjamin School, Gifft Hill School, Infinite Possibilities Home School, Methodist Pre-School, St. John Christian Academy, and Julius E. Sprauve School attended the fair. Students learned essential ecological lessons and useful tips from Virgin Islands experts in the fields of natural and cultural resources, recycling, and environmental education, while visiting various booths with interactive and captivating demonstrations.
Friends would like to extend a special thank you to our event sponsors: Big Planet, VI Lottery, NPCA, and VI Audubon Society. Numerous island businesses and community partners donated supplies and giveaways for the event as well. Friends would like to thank Baked in the Sun, Bayside Mini Mart, the Cruz Bay Fire Fighters, Deli Grotto, Dolphin Market, First Bank, iScream, June Mays Photography, Laurel Sewer, Love City Mini Mart, Maho Bay Camps, Our Market, Pine Peace Mini Mart, Ronnie’s Pizza, Starfish Market, St John Ice, St John School of the Arts, St Thomas Dairies, and Westin St John Resort & Villas for their generous contributions to the fair.
However, the real appreciation and thanks must go out to the numerous volunteers that donated their time to make this event happen, your involvement and dedication is admirable and the event would have never been possible without you. Friends would like to extend a very special thank you to Peter Alter for the use of his tents and to the numerous National Park staff members that helped during the fair.
We also want to thank the many presenters who were on hand to teach our youth about their fragile island and global environment through creative activities and booths. Students got dirty excavating a simulated archeology dig, watched environmental movies, played ocean bingo, learned about local seeds and crafts, baked cookies in a solar oven, crushed recycled cans, joined a fact finding scavenger hunt, jumped like a frog, viewed a solar car, created recycled art, and helped to document numerous ways to keep St. John pristine for future generations.
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