Satya Hamidi, a junior at Davies High School and the committee's Fargo Youth Initiative representative, presented a student‑led recycling pilot to the Sustainability and Resiliency Committee intended to make recycling more accessible and to increase students' recycling knowledge and participation. "I consistently had to recycle paper, but the nearest recycling bin that would have been in my path to my next class was across the building," Hamidi said, explaining the problem that motivated the project.

Hamidi described a four‑phase plan beginning with updated teacher and student surveys and an education campaign, followed by bin preparation and distribution, then monitoring and a conclusion and data analysis period in May. She said a teacher survey conducted last year reached 22 teachers and found that 45% of respondents did not have a recycling bin in their classroom; teachers who did have bins reported contamination and visibility problems. Hamidi said the project will pilot in one team center to simplify data collection and will include weekly messages on school TVs and posters explaining what can be recycled.

The project will collect both opinion data (teacher and student surveys) and, where feasible, physical observations of contamination using a qualitative scale (1 = most contamination to 5 = least). Hamidi acknowledged operational limits, noting the manpower required to inspect classroom trash and recycling and the district's new student device policy, which restricts students' personal devices and required her to adjust plans for QR‑code based tracking.

Hamidi said the project aims to engage multiple student organizations, not only the environmental club, and suggested establishing plastic‑bag collection points at Davies for monthly drop‑offs to grocery stores that accept them. She said distribution of classroom bins is planned for January with monitoring through mid‑March and a data review in May.

Committee members praised the project. James Hand, director of facilities for Fargo Public Schools, said he would welcome student involvement and noted the district has run student education projects before. Mike Williams, a public representative on the committee, recalled Fargo's 2018 Georgetown Energy Prize effort and credited student and teacher participation for past successes. Hand suggested the student could present to the school board, and committee members encouraged continuing the initiative beyond Hamidi's graduation by handing it to the environmental club.

Hamidi's plan was informational; the committee offered encouragement and no formal vote was taken.