It was a senior at Sanford who thought going paperless would be a perfect way to celebrate earth day. And while going completely paperless was deemed impossible, students and teachers found a way to make it work.
Senior Suchit Tuli tells us, "It's different, during morning meeting instead of having announcements written on paper, in lieu of that we had a projector set up and the announcements were on that, so I think it's different."
"It really makes you think about how much you use paper, that's for sure, but it makes you think creatively and I think it's really a great lesson and symbolic about what we can do," said teacher Kim Walsh.
Students are used to working with their hands in the science lab, but without paper these kids had to jot down their findings on an erasable board. Other students spent their day learning outdoors, all enough to win over skeptics.
Senior Kelly Reynolds said, "I was a little worried about it because we use so much paper for everything, tests, homework, everything like going to the bathroom and stuff, you have to use paper for it."
Going completely paperless may never work, but using a tree made out of recycled paper, students at Sanford pledged to think outside of the box about how to take better care of the planet.
