During a Natural Science Week event that I organized on October 17th 2013, middle school students in Panama contribute to a communal effort to keep the community clean. They decide to make the clean up into a competition and work in teams to pick up as much trash as possible. It was rewarding to see as they take charge to make the event as effective as possible and to see that they are realizing that they can have an impact on the environment that surrounds them and on their peers.