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San Diego Unified and Rob Machado Foundation to Celebrate Earth Day at District's Top Recycling Elementary School
Monday, April 21, 2025
WHAT:
To celebrate Earth Day, the Rob Machado Foundation, district leaders, and teachers will hand out 600 reusable water bottles to Sandburg Elementary School students. The handouts will take place between Shows that Teach's "Crazy Bottles and Cans" performances.
WHEN:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Opportunity #1:
8:00 - 8:45 a.m. - First Assembly with K-2nd and 5th-grade students*
8:45 - 9:15 a.m. - Board of Education Trustee Sabrina Bazzo to join teacher Candace Bouchard in handing out water bottles in Kinder Classroom
Opportunity #2:
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. - Second Assembly with UTK and 3rd- 4th-grade students*
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. - Water bottle handouts in UTK classroom
*Media interviews can be arranged during the performances. Students attending the assemblies are not media-released.
WHERE:
Sandburg Elementary School Multipurpose Room*
11230 Avenida Del Gato
San Diego, CA 92126
*See the event location map with the media staging area below. Please note: the school start time is at 7:45 a.m. Expect heavy traffic from 7:25 -7:45 a.m.
VISUALS:
Crazy Bottles and Cans Show Performances, Rob Machado Foundation Water Bottle Handouts
GUEST INTERVIEWS:
Sabrina Bazzo, Board of Education Trustee, San Diego Unified School District
Lindsay Burningham, Principal, Sandburg Elementary School
Evelyn Espinoza, 5th Grade Student, Sandburg Elementary School*
*Evelyn is available for English and Spanish interviews during the first assembly.
BACKGROUND:
Located in the heart of Mira Mesa, Sandburg Elementary serves students UTK-5th Grade and is one of San Diego Unified's highest academic performing elementary schools. With GATE and Leader in Me programs, Sandburg recognizes students for their hard work and leadership. This school year, Sandburg Elementary won the district's 10th annual recycling challenge, a challenge that encourages schools to help reduce waste, comply with state and local laws, and increase recycling awareness.
In support of San Diego Unified School District's clean water initiative to replace old drinking water outlets with high-quality, filtered hydration stations, the Rob Machado Foundation has donated another 15,000 reusable bottles to San Diego Unified students at 29 schools.
In total, the Rob Machado Foundation has donated 45,000 reusable bottles to students at 97 schools in the last three academic years. It plans to donate more, eventually reaching every San Diego Unified student.
Encouraging students to drink more water and cut plastic pollution from local landfills, waterways, and the ocean, the reusable water bottles and filtered hydration stations have made access to water at San Diego Unified better than ever before.
As a result of a district initiative to provide clean drinking water to all students, the high-quality filtered hydration stations replace old, unfiltered drinking water outlets at all San Diego Unified schools. While all San Diego Unified schools have received temporary filtered water bottle fillers, construction continues to install additional permanent filtered hydration stations and remove all unfiltered drinking water outlets districtwide.
Supported by the facilities bond program, San Diego Unified set a public health goal of water with lead content below one part per billion (ppb) and an action level of 5 ppb - three times the federal standard.
Construction is complete at 153 schools and sites districtwide, with four sites currently under construction. The district currently has 4,492 filtered drinking water outlets.
PARKING:
Media can park in the loading zone, indicated in orange on the map below.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jamie Ries, Information Services Specialist, San Diego Unified, (619) 855-9283, jries@sandi.net.
Samer Naji, Facilities Communications Supervisor, San Diego Unified, (619) 548-3388, snaji@sandi.net.
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