This past semester, we rolled out our biggest competition yet, the Biggest Loser: Energy competition where 59 Action Teams all across the country turned off lights and unplugged energy vampires to compete for the $1000 grand prize. We’ll announce the national and regional winner next week, but in the meantime, here’s a sneak – peak look into how Biggest Loser: Energy participant Everett High School in New England when about shed mad pounds of CO2.

This is a guest blog post from Kenny and Nehemias, Action Team members at Everett High School in New England.

Hey! Kenny and Nehemias here from Everett High School’s Green Monsters Club. We recently attended an ACE Leadership Training and are very pleased to have won a $200 starter grant for our club. The Green Monsters are currently participating in The Biggest Loser: Energy project. Right now we’re in week 3 of our project and things are looking great! We have 18 teachers helping us on our project and we’ve successfully filled out our First Weigh-In as well as the first and second weeks of our Hit the Gym charts. The $200 starter grant will be used to increase awareness in our school of just how much energy we use in our daily lives and how we can reduce that amount. We will be doing this by creating posters and PSA’s not only about energy, but also Vampire Energy. We are also creating a giant sphere out of old newspapers and paper mache to replicate our planet Earth. Why a giant sphere? We are going to use this sphere to challenge our student body to pledge to make a reduction in the amount of energy and resources they use every day. Every student that pledges will get a sticker with their name written on it and will be able to place it on the sphere. We are hoping to have enough pledges to not only cover the sphere but also inform the student body of just what we are doing here in the Green Monsters Club.

Along with The Biggest Loser Energy project, the Green Monsters Club is also preparing for the winter! We recently modified our school garden to now be able to plant garlic, a vegetable very capable of growing in the cold winter snow. We recently harvested strawberries we grew and a variety of herbs. These herbs and other vegetables will be used in collaboration with yet another project we are working on. This project involves both the Green Monsters and the Future Chefs of America Club here at Everett High School. We are working with the Future Chefs to create a menu that will be served all day at lunch later in the year. Using our garden’s herbs and vegetables we hope to create a healthy and delicious meal for the whole student body.

Look for more Biggest Loser: Energy stories coming soon. Are you in an Action Team and missed the competition this time around? Don’t worry, we’re rolling out a new and improved Biggest Loser: Energy competition in the spring.