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Sustainability Week

Help Celebrate Sustainability Week: November 17-21, 2025

The San Mateo Union High School District’s Sustainability Committee announced it plans for a dynamic week of projects, lessons, and activities centered on Sustainability in November 2025. Sustainability facilitators from each site will work with students, teachers, environmental organizations, and community members to organize activities that promote environmental literacy.

All six comprehensive high schools will have assemblies that aim to educate students about climate change and how San
Mateo County is responding to this challenge.

Other activities include:

  • Lunch time activities such as waste sorting games, fashion shows with thrifted clothes, and bike races
  • Waste Audits
  • Hands-on restoration and water monitoring activities
  • Climate focused lessons in math, science, Government/Economics, and English classes
  • Green Jobs career fair/panel
  • Campus tours of Green Infrastructure highlighting the new solar and EV Charging stations

To culminate the week, the district will sponsor a special evening event on November 20 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center.  The theme of the event is "Water is Life: Victories and Challenges to Water Equity in an Era of Climate Change". Representatives from leading environmental non-profit groups will discuss dam removal, financing water projects in low-income countries, and strategies to protect the San Francisco Bay.  This event is open to all SMUHSD students, teachers, parents, and community members. The event will start at 7 p.m.