Go Green School Challenge 2016
Enter your school for trophies & cash prizes!
Go Green School Challenge
Saturday, June 4, 1-5 PM ~ RAIN OR SHINE!
Go Green! BK Festival
McCarren Park, Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Has your school signed up? Go Green School Challenge is an exciting contest for our local schools. Schools are invited to use imagination, artistry, and scientific knowledge in a 10'x10' footprint to create exhibits of art and science, representing the theme, "Greening our Urban Environment."
First place winners will receive a stupendous teak trophy to brag about until next year's Go Green School Challenge. Winners will also receive a beautiful plaque & $500 cash prize!
The contest criteria are: (1) Scientific content, (2) Aesthetics (presentation), (3) Creativity, (4) How well the display/project communicates and informs the public on the theme, (5) Contest submission must represent work by the school's students and (6) Contest submission must be displayed at Go Green! BK Festival from 1 PM to 5 PM.
Contest winners will be announce after 4 PM. Please contact us at gogreen@townsquareinc.com to register.
And Friends, please stay in touch!
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2015 Go Green Elementary School Challenge Winner: PS 31 Brooklyn |
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9th Annual GO GREEN! Brooklyn Festival
Saturday, June 4, 1-5 PM ~ RAIN OR SHINE!
McCarren Park
Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Go Green! Brooklyn Festival will take over McCarren Park for a FREE celebration of the North Brooklyn community and local environmental programs. Park-goers can engage with and learn about sustainability initiatives while sampling local food, art and music.
This year's highlights include:
- Live Music and Dance Performances
- Free Fitness Workshops curated by Breakin Boundaries
- Box City & other kids activities hosted by Toys R Us
- Reading Garden by Brooklyn Public Library and BK Story Voyager
- Go Green School Challenges and Educational displays
- Greencycle Swap and Upcycling Station
- “Green Flair” styling by Edamama
- Volunteer park clean ups with Good.Clean.Fun
- Live action art projects
Go Green! Festival 2016 also celebrates the launch of Town Square’s newest initiative,
Go Green Brooklyn Hub, a new online destination for local environmental news, events and opportunities. Its mission is to increase participation in environmental programs and make our communities better places to live.
Friends, please stay in touch!
A few exhibiting booths are available. Apply at
https://go-green-bk-2016-exhibitors.eventbrite.com. Applications will be reviewed on a first-come basis. For more information, contact us at
gogreen@townsquareinc.com or visit
www.gogreenbk.nyc.
Festival Partners: Broadway Stages, ExxonMobil, Newtown Creek Group, NYC Dept of Youth & Community Development, ToysRUs, and VICE.
Local Partners: A Child Grows in Brooklyn, Breakin Boundaries, Edamama, Greenpointers, NAG, and National Sawdust
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Go Green! Festival |
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Click here for a pdf flyer |
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Go Green Brooklyn HUB: a new Town Square initiative
Check out Town Square's new website,
Go Green Brooklyn: an exciting online hub that organizes local environmental stories, events and resources into one dynamic platform.
By sharing interesting content — local heroes’ stories, events and concrete ways for citizens to get involved in North Brooklyn’s myriad of green organizations — Go Green Brooklyn will support green advocates, galvanize all residents and bring neighbors together to benefit the community.
This project is made possible with funding provided by the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
Please share
GoGreenbk.org with everyone you know who lives in Greenpoint and Williamsburg and be sure to have them
sign up for local eco news here.
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Support our Brooklyn Chess Champions!
For those of us who don't avidly follow chess happenings, the IS 318 took 3rd place in the National Middle School Chess Championships 2016 last month in Indianapolis. And without taking a breather, the IS 318 Girls took 2nd place in the National Girls Chess Championships 2016 in Chicago. PS 31 also won team trophies: 22nd and 17th in the u900 and u800, respectively. So very proud!
Tax deductible donations for IS 318 can be made here:
https://goo.gl/007Zhj.
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Greenpoint Chess AFTER SCHOOL Program HAPPENING NOW!
Chess NYC, St. John's Lutheran Church & Town Square partnership
St. John's Lutheran Church, 155 Milton Street, Brooklyn
Long awaited AFTERSCHOOL CHESS is happening now!
Click here for more info & to register for afterschool. We'll arrange for pick up if there're at least 4 students from your school who sign up for the Spring Session.
You can also sign up for the awesome Greenpoint Chess Holiday Camp (every NYC public school holiday) & Summer Camp are available. Matches, lessons, games like musical chess, playground time, pizza, ice-cream and more!
Click here for more info & to register.
AMAZING FLEXIBILITY! Sign up for a day or even half day! Great way to try it out.
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UPCOMING TOWN SQUARE & OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS*
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GREENPOINT CHESS: Afterschool & Holiday Camp on all school holidays
St John's Lutheran Church, 155 Milton Street, Brooklyn
Sign up for a day or even a half day!
A Town Square/Chess NYC/St John's Lutheran Partnership
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GREENPOINT DEVELOPMENT MEETING
Tuesday, May 24, 6:30 PM
Polish & Slavic Center, 176 Java Street, Greenpoint
Get updates on several of the projects in our area, including the NuHart State Superfund Site, the West Street project, and Greenpoint Landing. Bring your questions! We'll hear from NYC Council Member Stephen Levin, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), NYC Office of Environmental Remediation (NYC OER), Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, representatives from the West Street project, representatives from the Greenpoint Landing project, and representatives from the owners of the NuHart site.
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GWAPP'S ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM: HOW'S THE WATER?
Wednesday, May 25, 7-8:30 PM
Polish & Slavic Center, 176 Java Street, Greenpoint
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GREENING GREENPOINT's TREE CARE WORKSHOP
Thursday, May 26, 6 PM
McCarren Park, corner of Driggs Ave & Leonard Street, Brooklyn
For more info:
Kathleen.Martin@parks.nyc.gov.
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GREENPOINT CUB SCOUT "LUCKY" PACK 7
Friday, May 27, 7-8 PM
Every Friday during the school year (No meeting on Good Friday)
St. John's Lutheran, Church, 155 Mitlon Street, Greenpoint
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GREENPOINT VETERANS MEMORIAL PARADE
Sunday, May 29, 9 AM
Step off from St. Stanislaus Memorial American Legion Post #1771, up Manhattan Ave to St. Anthony's Church and back.
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MEMORIAL DAY
Monday, May 30, 2016
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GO GREEN! BROOKLYN FESTIVAL
Saturday, June 4, 1-5 PM
McCarren Park, Brooklyn
TOWN SQUARE PROGRAM
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GO GREEN GREENCYCLE SWAP
Saturday, June 4, 1-4 PM
McCarren Park, Brooklyn
TOWN SQUARE PROGRAM
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MEET THE DOT AT GO GREEN! BK FESTIVAL
Saturday, June 4, 1-5 PM
McCarren Park, Brooklyn
NYC DOT will be available to discuss traffic and transportation issues in the Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods.The project involves topic such as pedestrian safety, congestion and trucks, mobility and accessibility, and parking management ~ For more information contact Harvey LaReau at
hlareau@dot.nyc.gov
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COMMUNITY BOARD 1 COMBINED PUBLIC HEARING & BOARD MEETING
Tuesday, June 7, 6:30 PM
2nd Tuesday of month
211 Ainslie Street, corner of Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
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94TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING
Wednesday, June 8, 7 PM
1st Wednesday excluding July, August & December
St. John's Lutheran Church, 155 Milton Street, Greenpoint
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CEC DISTRICT 14
Thursday, June 9, 6 PM
2nd Thursday of month
Check
www.cecdistrict14.com for more details
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HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
Sunday, June 19, 2016
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ABC CHILD CENTER & ABC INFANT/TODDLER CENTER: OPEN HOUSE!
Saturday, June 25, 12-2 PM
109 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn
For more info: 718.389.9004 &
www.abcchildcenter.com
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NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Tuesday, June 28
Happy Summer!
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FOURTH OF JULY!
Monday, July 4, 2016
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FRIENDS OF GREENPOINT LIBRARY
Saturday, July 9, 3 PM>> tentative
Quarterly meetings
Greenpoint Library, 107 Norman Avenue, Greenpoint
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* Town Square programs are subject to change. |
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