Press photos courtesy Michelle Wallach At the beginning of February, Nitschmann MS's eighth grade Team NOVA launched a sustainability-based service learning project utilizing local and national outlets to reuse and recycle shoes and sneakers. In addition to recycling sneakers through Nike Reuse-A-Shoe, students donated shoes to New Bethany Ministries, a homeless shelter located in Bethlehem's Southside. This component of the project was designed to create connections between students and their local