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Hogg Middle School became the first Team WET School in 2002. Hogg Middle School serves as a model school as we continue to recruit more Houston Team WET Schools. Team WET Schools is being supported in Houston, Texas with generous funding from Storm Water Management Joint Task Force members, the City of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department Water Conservation Program and the Harris County Public Infrastructure Department - Flood Control District. Houston's water has a clear future with Team WET Schools and WET in the City in the works.

In an auditorium middle school students and a variety of local partners gathered to launch the first Team WET School. Leonel Castillo, Education Liaison for Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown, spoke of the important role Hogg students can play in protecting Houston’s water resources. Following his remarks, Castillo presented Principal Deborah Crowe and student representatives with a certificate designating Hogg a “Team WET School.”

After the ceremony, the celebration continued with a mini-water festival held in the school’s cafeteria foyer. Hogg’s 900 students had the opportunity to visit educational displays and participate in hands-on activities during their lunch periods. The excitement carried on as teachers and students planned to host their own water festival in the spring of April 2003.

Students led over 30 interactive, hands-on educational booths and engaged and informed over 650 parents, students, younger children from feeder elementary schools, and members of the community. Hundreds of students arrived early, signed in, and immediately began setting up the day’s activities. Different groups held fundraisers. The Student Council sold snow cones, the Hogg Café sold lunch, and Hogg’s student newspaper staff, Razorback Review, took pictures. The Science department sold handmade crafts created by students ranging in design from birdhouses made from recycled cardboard computer boxes and brown paper bags, wooden birdhouses, butterfly sculptures created from brown paper bags and glue, rain sticks and hummingbird feeders made from empty water bottles.

All of this was window dressing alongside the real activities of educating guests, old and young alike, about our water resources. Students conducted labs in some stations, while others held relay races and trivia games.

Celebrating the versatile talents of Hogg students, the day was accompanied with music thanks to Hogg’s sound engineering class. Seventh grade language arts students emerged as budding actors with the performance of a play, “Freddie the Fish,” in the school auditorium.

Hundreds of volunteers and guests went home acknowledging a job well done and ready to practice water wise ways.