ABOUT OUR SCHOOL: Liverpool High School is located in central New York, USA.  Our school contains students from grades 10-12.  This year our graduation class size is about 550 students, and our school days lasts from 7:45 am to 2:18 pm.  There are a lot of surrounding neighborhoods by the school so many students walk, take a bus, or carpool. The traveling distance for the students averages about 5 miles.  Although there are classes we  are required to take, students can take electives (optional classes).  Many students at Liverpool High School take an environmental science class at some point in high school.  There are a variety of sports and clubs students can be a part of.  Y.E.A. (Youth Environmental Action Club) is one of new clubs offered at our school.  The organization has cleaned up the woods behind out school, given other students environmental awareness, and participated in a battery recycling drive.  ABOUT US: Our student body, even in a relatively small area, is very diverse. In our class of ten, we have some things in common, but we also have our own unique traits.                 In our class, every student lives in a single-family house. We all have two working parents, and live with both. Two students are in single-parent families. Within the class, every student will be heading on to advanced education in the fall.                 Each student and his/her family has at least one car. Among us, five students drive to school on a regular basis. One student gets a ride from a parent. Two students walk, and the remaining two use school transportation. ABOUT OUR CLASS:                 We’ve all taken a few natural science courses before; the standard course load through Junior year involves Earth Science, Biology, and Chemistry. Those are all important classes for an introduction to straight science with lots of labs and dissection and diagrams of molecular compounds, but the course that we are in now is completely different. First off, EFB120 is a college freshman level course that we take through a local state-school. The cool thing is that we can go to lectures or conferences at the college, and since it’s specifically an environmental science college the facilities are fantastic (their greenhouses contain cacti, tropical fruit, carnivorous plants, and new genetic hybrids). Our class is taught by a certified teacher who is on the staff at SUNY-ESF with the help of a graduate student from the college (she is currently studying the impact of parasitic wasps on the natural wasp population). While all that is cool, the best part is the fact the class hasn’t been a typical science course. We have been introduced to a wide range of world issues, and the implications of environmental action as well as its economic impact.