Schoolcraft College will celebrate Earth Day 2011 on Thursday, April 21, 2011 with a number of activities in the Waterman Wing of the VisTaTech Center. All of the activities are free and open to the public.

From 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. guests can visit with the various 'Earth-friendly' companies and organizations sponsoring this year's celebration. Participating organizations include The Ecology Center, Friends of the Rouge, REI, Transportation Riders United, Detroit Zoo, Sierra Club, Beekeepers Club, Audubon Society, Greening of Detroit, Huron River Watershed Council, and the Livonia Community Garden Group.

From 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. John Rush, the Human iPod, will entertain guests in Henry's Food Court.

The Schoolcraft College Native American Club will present "Songs for the Children" with performances by children enrolled in the college's Children's Center program at 2 p.m.

Joe Rogers, Director of the Wildlife Recovery Association, will present "Birds of Prey," a wildlife education program featuring 10 live raptors including the Bald Eagle, Great Horned Owl, Short-eared Owl, Red-tailed Hawk, Northern Harrier and others, at  2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

In addition students will be making presentations and displaying their posters in the college's annual Earth Day Student Poster Scholarship Competition. Two winners of the competition will receive $250 scholarships funded by the Schoolcraft College Foundation.

The first 200 people to attend the Earth Day celebration will receive a white pine tree sapling. A variety of other items will also be raffled throughout the day.

The college's celebration of Earth Day 2011 will continue on Friday, April 22 with a clean-up event from 9 a.m. - noon. Volunteers should plan to meet under the AT&T cell tower on the eastern edge of the college's main campus in Livonia, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads. The clean-up effort will focus on the 1-275 bike path area and trees will also be planted. Volunteers are asked to bring any outdoor tools that might be useful and gloves. Lunch for volunteers will be provided following. Please call 734-462-4422 for more information.