The freshmen at Foothill Technology High School will soon be working on a project to show how everyday happenings locally affect the earth’s biomes.

The project, which launches October 12 and ends on December 14, is called “Think Global, Act Local: Human impact on the Biosphere.”

A major part of each freshman’s grade, the 9th Grade Project focuses on the impact of people on a certain area of the world, or biome. Students will research the environment of the biome and present its environmental concerns and endangered species of the area.

The research for the project will be done in the freshman’s Geography class, the speech in their English class, a wiki page in Education in the Digital Age, and an abstract, or outline, in their Biology class. With the help of these core teachers, students will present their biomes and their concerns to their classmates and to community members in a speech on December 14.

This project will, according to Ms. Claire Adams, a freshman Geography teacher, “get them to think and hopefully lead them to make decisions that enhance their environment.”

Sophomore Isabelle Asp recommends that freshmen start early and do well on it, because it makes “sophomore year easier, and speeches easier.” The freshman have not yet been assigned this project, but when Chrissy Springer, a freshman, heard about it, she says that it will be “beneficial to the environment” by studying the carbon footprint that each individual leaves on this planet.