Eighth-graders talk to legislators
ANNAPOLIS ? Eighth-graders at St. Andrew?s of Annapolis UMC Day School in Edgewater joined conservationists and state legislators to make a case at the State House for a statewide moratorium on harvesting diamondback terrapins.
Their effort, which ran through much of the school year, included research, writing, making pamphlets and other means to tell of the plight of the diamondback terrapin, a treasured species in Maryland that became the state reptile in 1994. The increasingly popular terrapin is decreasing in population year by year and the eighth-graders came up with a plan to protect the beloved creature, reported the Capital News Service.
Five of the 38 students who worked on the project presented the testimony they?d written themselves to a committee during the legislative session.
The middle school pupils were part of a statewide initiative called 'We the People: Project Citizen' that aims to get students interested in public policy. The project took first place in Annapolis and has gone to Nashville for the national competition, Leach said.
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