Clark County School District students who have completed an intense six-week summer program studying our water resources will unveil an initiative Friday encouraging their peers to switch to reusable water bottles and help the environment.

More than 80 Clark County School District children – many of them from Title I schools — were selected from throughout southern Nevada for their academic potential to paticipate in the summer program sponsored by the Alexander Dawson Foundation.

They will hold a grand finale for the program Friday, including an unveiling of promotional videos created by the students to promote their water bottle program.

The Dawson Foundation is helping the students set up a 501(c)3 to allow them to approach local businesses for donations of reusable water bottles and to visit local middle schools to distribute the reusable water bottles.

The students’ goal is to go to every middle school in the Clark County School District this year to spread their message on how disposable water bottles leave a carbon footprint.

For the past six weeks, the gifted CCSD students have engaged with business leaders, government officials, ranchers, environmental activists, journalists, engineers, scholars and attorneys on water issues in the summer program, “Water: Science and Culture in a Changing Climate.”

This is the first year of the summer program sponsored by the Dawson Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving education in Las Vegas. The summer program is based at the Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain.

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