For the next 2 weeks, students from elementary and high schools across Moose Jaw will be participating in an initiative called Global Warning. This will be the fourth year this has taken place, and it will see schools competing to see who can pick up the most weight in garbage.

Phil Simms is the Youth Activity Coordinator for AXIS.

"May 1st to the 14th we encourage schools to pick up garbage. After that garbage is collected one of the representatives from AXIS and Youth Advisory Committee will weigh all the garbage; they do all the different statistics, they bring it back to us, and then we give out awards on May 31st for the collection of that garbage."

Last year, high schools in Moose Jaw were able to pick up 2 tonnes of garbage, and with the addition of elementary schools this year, that total is expected to be much higher.

"There's 16 elementary schools I believe and there’s 6 high schools. Thousands and thousands (of kids), we're talking at least a tenth, if not 20% of the population."

After the garbage is collected, they form groups and turn the trash into art.

"They make art out of it and they're encouraged to make art pieces. We made it a group thing; we didn't want individual projects, we wanted it to be groups because this is a group initiative. So far the schools have been making amazing things. They have til the 22nd before they have to bring those pieces down to the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery and then the curator sets them up"..

On May 31st the pieces of art will be judged by a panel of adjudicators based on theme and creativity, among others. That will be followed by a luncheon supported by the City of Moose Jaw, which will include a ceremony, awards, and panel members discussing why they chose each piece that they did.

Below are some of 2017's art pieces.