EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -
Operation Hot Mess is a competition among EVSC schools to see which one can come up with the largest team to clean up Evansville this Saturday.
Students from each school are using different strategies to recruit teammates.
The New Tech Institute might be one of the smaller schools participating in Operation Hot Mess, but they aren't letting that hurt their motivation.
To prove they're in it to win it, they welcomed 14 News with a "hot mess" parody of Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive."
"We're all about pride here at New Tech. We're really excited to help clean up Evansville. We want to be more of a positive example," sophomore Lizzy Bayer said. "We started making posters and we're painting the windows. We want to get everyone really excited for this."
"I just want to have some fun with my friends and clean up some trash," freshman Thomas Clawson said.
Harrison High School organized a pep assembly just to get students excited to clean up Evansville.
Their strategy?
A competition within the school to see which class can get the most people to sign up.
The bonus?
A free dress day and bragging rights.
"We've made posters and we're going to post those throughout the school and try and get as many people as we can to participate," Harrison senior Imran Awan.
"We've sent out all different kinds of Facebook posts and tweets and having students invite their family, their friends. All the faculty is invited and different clubs and organizations at Harrison," said Alie Duff, another Harrison senior.
The school that wins the entire competition gets a party thrown by Heritage Federal Credit Union and 14 News.
But each school agrees the real prize will be giving back to the community.
Harrison and New Tech are just two out of the seven schools involved in Operation Hot Mess.
Be sure to watch 14 News each night the rest of this week. We'll have reports on the rest of the schools and their Hot Mess participation.
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