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Gainesville High students are environmental ambassadors
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Riley White, 16, points out plants she and others in Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, or FCCLA, have planted outside Gainesville High School. She is an environmental ambassador and likes to remind her classmates how they can cut down on environmental pollution at the school.
Styrofoam, recyclables, carpooling, composting and growing vegetables are part of “Greener Way is the Better Way,” a project that two Gainesville High School students will compete with in a nationwide contest in July. Senior Krystal Sanchez and junior Riley White won the state Family, Career and Community Leaders of America competition in Athens and will head to the national convention July 1-8 in San Diego. White was a member of FCCLA in 2014-15, but Sanchez joined this year at the urging of a club officer.