Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful are inviting tenth -Twelfth grade college students from across the state to assist preserve Pennsylvania clear and delightful by means of the Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania program.The program seeks to construct group stewards and civic leaders by inspiring, partaking, and empowering younger Pennsylvanians to not solely preserve their communities clear and delightful but in addition to grow to be ambassadors of their group for a shared imaginative and prescient of a clear and delightful Pennsylvania. Applicants must be passionate concerning the surroundings and dedicated to creating Pennsylvania one of the best place to reside, work and play by means of volunteerism and management.The Young Ambassadors program gives alternatives for highschool college students to coach and community with trade leaders, state businesses, native media and the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful community to extend management and downside fixing abilities and put together them to proceed to make variations of their communities and past. “Young folks throughout the Commonwealth are instrumental within the effort to curb litter and environmental degradation, now and sooner or later,” stated PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll. “It’s inspiring to see the rising stewards of Pennsylvania’s surroundings taking up such an lively position in clean-up efforts across the state.””We are honored to supply the Young Ambassadors Program in partnership with PennDOT for the second yr. The program exceeded our expectations final yr, so we’re keen to fulfill the brand new slate of scholars with the fervour to implement change of their communities and the commonwealth,” stated Shannon Reiter, President of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. “We hope to not solely encourage a way of group possession but in addition spotlight the significance of partaking group members, native companies and organizations in figuring out points and partnering to seek out options.”Chosen candidates will decide to function an Ambassador from October 2023 by means of May 2024 and characterize and uphold the mission and values of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful. Other obligations embody: attending six necessary digital training periods;conducting a group evaluation and making a abstract presentation;organizing and taking part in at the least one group cleanup occasion by means of choose up Pennsylvania and conducting one group training occasion or exercise. There can even be non-mandatory training periods from quite a lot of matters.Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful will present training and coaching to program contributors on such matters associated to the affect of litter on roadways, litter prevention, waste administration and recycling, civic engagement and associated public coverage, volunteer administration, and social media advertising. The program will present networking alternatives to not solely construct a way of group inside the program but in addition to advertise skilled improvement of the person college students. In addition, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful has partnered with Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania funded by the NiSource Charitable Foundation to supply Job Shadow Days to pick out Ambassadors.The Young Ambassadors program was beneficial within the commonwealth’s Litter Action Plan introduced by the Governor’s Office in November 2021 and is funded by PennDOT.Applications are being accepted August 1 by means of September 14. Students will probably be chosen by means of a aggressive utility course of. Students excited by making use of ought to go to keeppabeautiful.org and select Programs, Education then Young Ambassadors of Pennsylvania or contact Kylie McCutcheon at 724-836-4121 x114 or [email protected]. Subscribe to statewide PennDOT information and site visitors alerts at www.penndot.gov/information or select a area below “Regional Offices.” Information concerning the state’s infrastructure and outcomes the division is delivering for Pennsylvanians may be discovered at www.penndot.gov/outcomes. Find PennDOT’s deliberate and lively development tasks at www.tasks.penndot.gov. MEDIA CONTACT: Zachary Appleby, 717-783-8800 or [email protected] Stephanie Larson, 724 836-4121 x104 or [email protected] ###
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