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MCCTC hosts annual Trash Bash
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Mahoning County Career and Technical Center junior and senior students made outfits out of recyclable items for the school’s annual Trash Bash April 25.
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Neighbors | Abby Slanker.Junior and senior Mahoning County Career and Technical Center students created fashions out of items destined for the trash or recycle bin for the school’s annual Trash Bash April 25.
By ABBY SLANKER
Students at Mahoning County Career and Technical Center created recycled fashion forward outfits for their seventh annual Trash Bash April 25. The Trash Bash consisted of a fashion show with clothes designed and created by the students with items destined for the trash can or recycling bin.
The juniors and seniors in Melissa Hackett’s and Mary Ann Thoburn’s Interactive Multi-Media class worked on their fashions for two months from conception to finish. The students collected items from several places to use in their designs.
“They pillaged all the labs here at school, the pillaged the community and they pillaged their places of employment. We have two girls who work at Subway and Wendy’s and they were able to create their pieces out of recyclable wrappers from customers and used gift cards,” Hackett said.
Items the students used included, bubble wrap, crossword puzzles, newspaper, grocery bags, Arizona tea cans, bottle caps, bread tabs, cemetery flowers, Wendy’s wrappers, Subway wrappers and used gift cards, air filters, buttons, cupcake cups, fabric, water bottles, and water and pop bottle labels.
The students could work in teams or as individuals. Each team included a designer and model for the fashion show.
The MCCTC cosmetology students, under teacher Lisa Argiro, lent a hand with hair and make up for the models. Argiro also helped the models with their choreography for the show.
The show was in partnership with the Mahoning County Green Team, which provided a grant to held fund the project. Kim Lewis, of the Green Team, helped the students find any materials for their fashions they could not locate on their own.
The seniors in the class were responsible for marketing for the show. The students put up posters asking their fellow students for help in providing materials and several students helped behind the scenes of the show by coordinating the music and video cameras.
Junior Drew Gaver served at emcee for the fashion show.
“Every year, you never know how it’s going to turn out. You watch their creative process and it is so impressive how spectacular the pieces and show turn out to be. They all did a really great job,” Hackett said.