Thirty Fulton Schools students are on their way to Ethiopia to begin a project to help the community in the country’s Simien Mountains National Park area overcome a problem with a large accumulation of plastics waste. Machines the student team has been prototyping for the past two years will be used to transform plastic bottles discarded by tourists and turn them into products that can be sold. The team’s goal is to both protect the local environment while also providing revenue for people living in the area. Students will also use locally sourced materials to build their plastics transformation machines.