To conclude Sustainability Week, students, teachers, and organization leaders gathered in Redwood’s Little Theater last friday for Turn the Tide, an event which showcased a year’s worth of community action toward environmental activism.

The event featured guest speakers from Redwood and from organizations such as Next Generation and the Regenerative Design Institute.

The MC of the night was science teacher Joe Stewart, who introduced all of the guest speakers.

Among the students who spoke were junior Kenneth Berreman and seniors Jeremy Becker and Claire Condy. They gave a presentation about a recent trip they took with Stewart and several other students to Belize, where they studied behavioral patterns of bottlenose dolphins, as well as lionfish, an invasive species.

Junior Katherine Grellman, who attended both the Belize trip and the Turn the Tide event, described the event as inspiring, and said she was amazed by many of the presentations she saw.

“Just being in a room of people that had the same passion and interest in improving the way we live in itself was the coolest part of the night,” she said.

Several students, including Becker and seniors Sasha Perigo, Sophia Hooper, Olivia Moskowitz, and Connor Donnelly received awards for their environmental activism.

Music students Gideon Elson, senior, and Annika Wells, junior, provided original music, which featured environment-related lyrics.