The Chicago River Student Congress is a day of workshops and presentations by students and for students to learn about the Chicago River. This is the third Congress that I went to, and the second that I presented at. I think that presenting at the Congress is much better than just attending. It was fun to come up with a message and design a lesson to go with it. In the end we had three short activities about where our water comes from, what’s in it and where it goes. We successfully tied a local river into a global effect by touching on where water came from and where it goes. It was also a lesson in time management trying to fit everything that we wanted to say into thirty minutes. All in all, the whole Congress was a learning experience, whether it was the workshops and presentations I attended or the workshops I taught.
Hanna T.B
