Bee Group Art Contest

      The Roosevelt Middle School Bee Group is proud to announce a new monthly art contest!!! This contest is open to everyone who is between ten and eighteen years old. All submissions must relate to bees. Inappropriate submissions will be disqualified. Plagiarism is illegal. The submissions can be in any form (photographs, sculptures, paintings, drawings, digital art, etc,). Submissions can bee sent in at any time; we will announce the May winner in about one month. Please include your name, art medium, a photo/file of your art, and your current age. The winning submissions will be posted, and may be used elsewhere on the website.

Sadly, due to the brief amount of time remaining in the school year, we will postpone the art contest until the 2014-2015 school year. Feel free to make bee art over the summer, though. Thank you!

Photographs/files of your work should bee sent to our email, rmsbeegroup@gmail.com 

Here are a few sample submissions:

This is a drawing by the amazing artist Hailee Heidick that encourages people to reduce harmful pesticide use.
©Hailee Heidick 2014

This is a photo of a bumble bee about to land on a clover in Central Pennsylvania. ©Zachary Zollman 2013

Florida Canyon Adventure 3/20/14

Summary by Molly Demer

Photographs by Zachary Zollman

The RMS Garden Club joined the RMS Bee Group  in our second to last 2014 Florida Canyon Adventure. 18 people (5 advisors and 13 students) walked over to our bee garden, which was previously cleared for planting. We then we sorted our seventy native plants by species and learned how much space each type of plant needed. We planted:

Cleveland Sage

California Buckwheat

San Diego Sunflower

Lemonade Berry

Yarrow

Bladderpod

Blue-eyed Grass

After planting, we watered the plants, and made rock rings around the plants so that they wouldn’t be trampled. As usual, we picked up trash as we went. We moved around some logs and created an extra space for our pollinator garden. This was a spectacular event. Thank you, volunteers!

We planted a lot of Blue-eyed grass!

Roosevelt Middle School IB Festival

Summary by Zachary Zollman

     Today was the annual Roosevelt Middle School I.B. (International Baccalaureate) Fest! Bee Group had a table, and we collected donations, gave away California Poppy Seeds, showed people one of our videos about Florida Canyon, and talked to them about bees. It was really great to get to inform people about the plight of the bees. We gave away about fifteen CA Poppy seed packets with informational cards about the Bee Group. These CA poppies will benefit all sorts of native pollinators, including bees. Overall, this was a really great event!

Thank you to our volunteers:

Jade Bushnell

Kai Delman

Hailee Heidick

Noah Herdman

Lillian Shallow

Zachary Zollman

This is a trifold that we made about Bee Group.  The trifold features screenshots of our videos, explanations of the importance of bees, a few paragraphs about what we do.

At our table, we had a computer with a video from a Florida Canyon Adventure, a box filled with CA Poppies, a donation box, field trip forms for our Florida Canyon Adventures, and a tri fold.