Mullen Middle Students' Orangutan Wiki Page Up and Running

A Wiki page Ann A. Mullen Middle School students have been working on since mid-January to draw attention to the plight of orangutans has been launched.

The Wiki page is part of an overall effort by 13 Mullen Middle students entered in the Philadelphia Zoo's regional UNLESS Contest. This year's UNLESS contestants have been charged with raising awareness about the destructive connection between palm oil and orangutans while promoting the use of products that include sustainable palm oil.

Designed and populated with information about the endangered orangutan by Mullen sixth-graders Rashi Agrawal, Ashley Freeman and Katie Power, the Wiki page can be viewed by clicking here.

Gloucester Township Patch visited with the 13 students and faculty advisors Kim Champion and Patti McBride on Feb. 8.

In addition to the sixth-grade students' Wiki page, a group of eight eighth-graders—Rishabh Agrawal, Bailey Allmond, Kaitlin Bassi, Paige Dickinson, Briana Graves, Salvatore Macaro,  Lydia Merachnik, Nick Murphy, Jeremy Wallace and Keith Washington—has been putting together a video for the school's daily morning news program, Day Break. That video will air sometime on or by Feb. 29.