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Meet Linda McLaughlin, W e ’re making a few communication changes.

Our new Communication Specialist
As we introduce this, our premier issue of SERT Spotlight, we’re retiring both the
by Richard Benjamin, SERT program manager
SERT Flash and our News and Upcoming Events pieces. It is our goal to have one main
communication tool to share all SERT-related news and data on a consistent monthly
In August, the SERT
basis. We will, of course, continue to send you important reminders about building
program welcomed
shut downs, events, and so forth, but we’d like for you to get accustomed to using
Linda McLaughlin to
this newsletter as your main information source. Feel free to share it with others!
the team to serve as
a program technician, If your school’s SERT/Green Team is doing something wonderful, please let us know.
specifically tasked to We’d love to share your story with our SERT readers. Email your photographs and/or
care for SERT’s a few paragraphs about what you’re doing to SERT@mcpsmd.org.
communication. Linda McLaughlin
@mcpsSERTnews
Linda has more than
25 years experience as a graphic
designer, desktop publisher, and editor.
She is skilled at creating brochures,
writing newsletters, corporate branding,
and managing websites. Linda has served
as an Administrative Assistant to a high
school principal and also taught Graphic
Design and Newsletter/Yearbook for
grades 9-12.
SERT congratulates all of the winners of the 2016 Watts Up?
The SERT program is excited to welcome
Linda to our team and look forward to Contest and thanks all the students and staff who participated. The new
her contributions and creativity as we posters have been printed and sent via Pony Express to the SERT leader of
promote resource conservation each school. As always, electronic versions may be downloaded from our
throughout MCPS. website. We’re all looking forward to seeing the next batch of entries which
are due on April 17, 2017.

This newsletter is produced by the School Energy and Recycling Team (SERT) program
THE SERT TEAM:
and distributed to SERT leaders, Green Teams, building personnel, and others who are
Richard Benjamin, program manager
interested in conservation and sustainability. As part of the Montgomery County Public
Helen Blankfeld, information specialist
School (MCPS) Department of Facilities Management (DFM), the SERT program provides
opportunities for all schools to participate and receive incentives and recognition for DJ Connelly, facilitator
their energy conservation and recycling efforts. We support a balanced environment for Linda McLaughlin, program technician
the integration of all students to work together in a culturally diverse environment, and John Meyer, recycling manager
strive to provide the resources, support, and vision of the future for a successful Jim Stufft, facilitator
conservation program at each school. Promoting the connections between human
behavior and its impact on the environment reinforces our culture of conservation and
increases participation in our mission to conserve resources and recycle actively.

Department of Facilities Management | SERT PROGRAM | 45 W. Gude Drive, Suite 4000 | Rockville, MD 20850
www.GreenSchoolsFocus.org | Direct: 240.314.4709 | Main: 240.314.1090 | Fax: 301.279.3005 | @MCPSsert
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