Clean Teens: High school students share positive messages with younger children
Published 3:48 pm Friday, April 13, 2018
Star Photos/Abby Morris-Frye The Carter County Clean Teens along with Sheriff Dexter Lunceford and School Resource Officer mentors.
High school students from around the county come together each year to serve as role models for younger students while spreading positive messages about protecting the environment and ending bullying.
The Carter County Clean Teens is a group of model students from the county’s four high schools. The team is sponsored by the Carter County Sheriff’s Office.
Each year, the Clean Teens put together skits using popular characters to share their core messages of reduce, reuse, and recycle to protect the environment and speaking out against bullying. The students on the team write the scripts for the skits as well as build props and design costumes.
This year, the Clean Teens used popular characters from the Trolls to share the littering message, while the bullying message was shared by the characters from Minions.
Each year in the Spring, the Clean Teens visit each of the county’s elementary schools to present their program to the younger students.
This year’s Clean Teens are: Cierra Southerland, Madison Beasley, Maegen Tittle, Kaleb Miller, Dominic Watson, Katie Clawson, Mamie Jones, Melody Stanley, Maddie Bunting, Ellen Carpenter, Jacob Survey, and Claire Johnson.
The Clean Teens are mentored by Carter County Sheriff’s Office Deputies who serve as School Resource Officers including Lt. Mike Carlock, Deputy Bruce Rudis, and Deputy Brian Smithpeters.
