Mason-Rice Green Team Kids!

Mason-Rice Green Team, an initiative of the Mason-Rice PTO with the support of Principal Bultema, was selected again as a recipient of multiple awards for its environmental education work during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school year. For its work last year on lunchroom composting and additional in-person and virtual programming, the Green Team recently received the state’s Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education Award and the M assachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Team prize.   Thank you and congratulations to Mason-Rice parents and Green Team leadership Wendy Sheu and Barbara Nestle, former Mason-Rice parent Heather Friedman, Mason-Rice alumnus Kate Esbenshade, Principal Bultema and all of the incredible Mason-Rice students who participated in the Green Team. We are excited to continue and expand this important work at Mason-Rice in the 2021-22 school year.   If you are interested in co-leading or learning more about the Green Team, please contact Wendy

  In fall 2020, Mason-Rice alum Elizabeth Sockwell created the 4C Tree Project in Newton, Massachusetts, to honor those who have lost their lives due to COVID-19 . The project 4C, spearheaded by Green Newton’s Environmental Youth Leadership Program, stands for “Capture, Carbon, Commemorate COVID-19.” Elizabeth reached out to Mason-Rice Green Team, and we were thrilled to support her and to help her identify locations for new trees on and around our school grounds.  By the Spring, Elizabeth and the Green Newton's Environmental Youth Leadership Program successfully met their fundraising goal, and with critical support from Mayor Fuller and the Marc Welch, Newton's director of forestry, began planting trees.   Mason-Rice was chosen as the location for the beautiful 4C Tree Planting Ceremony, which took place on May 1.  Thank you to Elizabeth and the  Environmental Youth Leadership Program,  Mayor Fuller, Marc Welch, Green Newton and all those involved in helping to both commemorat