MP students document spill’s impact

Youths hope to turn footage into documentary by August

By: Betsy Simon - Sentinel-Record

ON THE LOOKOUT: Mountain Pine EAST Lab students Eli Smith, 15, back left, Wyatt Caldwell, 14, and Haydn Jeffers, 13, record the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Biloxi, Miss., last week for a documentary about the April 20 spill. The students traveled across Louisiana and Mississippi for...

MOUNTAIN PINE – Journeying across portions of the Deep South last week, Mountain Pine High School’s Environmental And Spatial Technology students discovered that the impact of the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has seeped into the lives of coastal residents.

The students and the...

Published: 06/10/2010