THE 23RD ANNUAL KIDS OCEAN DAY UNITED 4,000 LOS ANGELES SCHOOL CHILDREN AT DOCKWEILER STATE BEACH

More than 4,000 Los Angeles students, teachers and volunteers participated Thursday in the 23rd annual Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Clean-Up at Dockweiler State Beach. The kids cleaned the beach and formed aerial art. Students from all over L.A. formed their own individual ocean bubbles to highlight the diversity of our ocean and the need for every individual to join together to keep it clean. One student, Amin Biya, a fifth grader at Crescent Heights Elementary School, was honored for his poem “The Ocean…What a Motion!” which won a citywide poetry contest for the event.

The day’s activities began with a program kick-off involving City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works Commissioner Monica Rodriguez; LA Sanitation Executive Director Enrique Zaldivar; California Coastal Commissioner Wendy Mitchell; Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education and Kids Ocean Day Founder and Executive Director Michael Klubock; and Amin Biya, who created the winning poem. Students picked up trash in a massive beach clean up before forming the aerial art mosaic.

Kids Ocean Day was the culmination of a year-round school assembly program to teach Los Angeles school kids about the adverse impacts of pollution to the ocean. Kids Ocean Day in Los Angeles was organized by the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education, the California Coastal Commission,California State Coastal Conservancy, the City of Los Angeles and Keep Los Angeles Beautiful.

To learn more about Kids Ocean Day, visit www.kidsoceanday.org