READY Program team wins $10,000 in Lexus Eco Challenge
By Jodi Heckel
Wednesday November 19, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
Ready Program students Laine Hopkins and Precious Weatherall-Green, both 16, set up displays at their team's 'Go Green for Good Eats' bake sale Tuesday at the B. Lime store in downtown Champaign, where baked goods were traded for recyclable goods. The sale was part of the efforts that earned the team the $10,000 first place prize in the Lexus Eco Challenge.
CHAMPAIGN – The environmental measures initiated by students at the READY Program – turning off lights when no one is in the room, laminating hall passes to save paper, recycling whatever they can – are probably saving the school some pennies.
But they've also brought in some real money to the school and the students.
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