Student Voices

Student Voices For Educators

Check out the amazing projects and opportunities featuring students around the country working to keep our sea free of debris.

A Community Approach to Reducing Single-Use Plastic Bottles

Explore resources from this project focused on reducing single-use plastic water bottle use behavior of students at two high schools in Virginia through increased awareness of and connectivity between bottle usage and inland and marine debris problems.

Water and Climate Stewards of San Diego Bay

A NOAA Planet Stewards educator shares resources and lessons learned from their work in the 2022 issue of The Earth Scientist.

Environmental Stewardship on St. Paul Island

A NOAA Planet Stewards educator shares resources and lessons learned from their work in the 2022 issue of The Earth Scientist.

Salem Sound Coastwatch & Girls, Inc., of Lynn, Massachusetts, Talk Trash for Clean Oceans

These high school students have created outreach campaigns around issues including cigarette butt litter, composting, and working with restaurants.

Eckerd College Reduces Single Use

Students at Eckerd College have led an effort to reduce single-use plastics on campus through research, outreach, and policy changes.

Creating a social norm: A student-designed program to reduce marine debris

Fifth graders from Falmouth, Massachusetts, worked with partners to create a campaign to reduce single-use plastics in their community.

Refuse Plastic: Save the Seas!

With funding from the NOAA Planet Stewards Project, these students focused on reducing waste through reusables in school and home lunches.

Empowering Students to Prevent Marine Debris in the Long Island Sound Watershed

The Connecticut Audubon Society is working with 14 schools in the Long Island Sound watershed to assess the most prevalent types of marine debris in local waterways and implement prevention methods using student-designed solutions.

Central Coast Alliance for Expanding Marine Debris Prevention in Schools

One Cool Earth is leading an alliance of partners across the Central Coast of California to incorporate marine debris reduction activities in schools and empower youth to change their waste disposal behaviors.

Aventureros Averting Plastics for a Better Baja

The Vermilion Sea Institute is expanding the work and research of local youth in the Aventureros educational program to support the Bahía de los Ángeles community in Baja California, Mexico in reducing single-use plastics and waste.

A Plastic-Free Education Campaign in Southeast Florida

The Ocean Conservancy and their partners will engage local Miami-Dade County youth and businesses through their Plastic Free Cities campaign to reduce single-use plastics.

Empowering Ocean Stewards Through the Ocean Guardian Schools Program

Students and teachers at Simon A. Sanchez High School and John F. Kennedy High School in Guam implemented Ocean Guardian School projects that prevented marine debris and encouraged students to lead environmental stewardship in their communities.

Taking a Bite Out of Lunchroom Waste in Northeast Michigan

The Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan and Northeast Michigan Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative are leading "Food for Thought," a project engaging 500 youth in grades 3-12 in Northeast Michigan to reduce waste produced in school lunchrooms.

Changing Littering Behavior through Student Leadership and Peer Mentorship

The Alice Ferguson Foundation is expanding its current marine debris focused education programming to engage secondary students in Prince George’s County, Maryland, around the issue of marine debris and litter prevention in their schools and communities.