While Mitty students have encountered environmental information and root causes in religious studies and science classes, Enviro Week is a week-long campaign spearheaded by the Environmental Justice Team of MAP (Mitty Advocacy Project). It is motivated to bring positive change within the Mitty community through the two-pronged combination of education and action.

Typically held during the last week of April, this annual event serves as an awareness campaign to engage the Mitty community on a myriad of environmental topics, from green legislation to carbon emissions. Through entertaining activities, speaker events, daily Mitty minutes (including a Nicki Minaj parody), and more, members of the Mitty community have the opportunity to broaden their perspectives. Each day of Enviro Week is dedicated to a specific environmental topic or theme, corresponding with a different interactive activity, while the last day is typically reserved for spreading awareness of all types of pressing environmental issues and how members of the Mitty community can address them in their daily lives.

To create this massive and interconnected campaign, members of the Environmental Justice branch of MAP begin working on Enviro Week a month prior to the actual event. During their biweekly meetings, they brainstormed ideas for each day and activities that would highlight these topics. Furthermore, they coordinate to implement fun Mitty Minutes, vivid posters, and engaging booths for lunches during the week. These few meetings preparing for Enviro Week spurs a sense of family among the members. As senior Shannon Guo, an Environmental Justice branch leader, states, “It was overall just a wonderful bonding experience that brought all of us together.” 

The event itself was a roaring success. Not only was MAP able to host an array of speaker activities, but it also succeeded in educating fellow students about environmental concerns. To sum it up, Guo reiterates, “I feel like most people understand that climate change is bad, but I want to bring tangible action as well as information that makes people excited to help save the planet.”