Forest Park wins Kimball Electronics’ annual Green Games

Forest Park High School narrowly defeated 2024 winner Northeast Dubois High School in the 2025 Kimball Electronics Green Games, resulting in a combined 4,500 pounds of recyclable materials being collected by participating high schools in Dubois County.

Items collected were aluminum cans, plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, and bottle caps.

The contest is part of the company’s High School Environmental Committee, open to students representing high schools in Dubois County. The company established the committee in 2019, rotating student members annually.

The difference between the two schools’ recycling totals was only 144 pounds. Northeast Dubois handed over the traveling trophy to Forest Park, which is now displayed at the school through Earth Day 2026.    

Besides the trophy, the winning school received ice cream bars, and to further encourage sustainability, Kimball Electronics donated reusable straws to the school. Ice cream was also awarded to Northeast Dubois students.

The bottle caps are being used to create a memorial bench.

This year’s student committee consisted of Ryia Linne and Stella Mahar (Northeast Dubois) and Addison Schneider and Chase Niehaus (Forest Park).

Students interested in joining the company’s Environmental Community for the next school year can contact Rylee Holder at rylee.holder@kimballelectronics.com.

“We are so impressed with the environmental spirit of the students’ who volunteered to join our committee for the 2024/2025 school year,” says Holder. “Their leadership resulted in more than doubling the total recyclable materials collected the previous school year. This is yet another way we demonstrate our company purpose of Creating Quality for Life in our communities and mentoring local students.”  

In the photo: Roger Hunter (Kimball Electronics), Chase Niehaus, Addison Schneider (both FPHS students) and Rylee Holder (Kimball Electronics).