It's OFFICIAL! GGG will continue in 2026-2027! So we need your help to collect gowns for next year's seniors. Donate your gently used gown after diploma pick up!

Give a Gown! DONATE!

Details Last Updated: June 1, 2026

When:

Starts Wed 6/24/26

Until Tue 7/21/26

All Day Long!

Where:

At School

Location: Portable 3

The RHS PTSA is proud to announce the “Gowns Going Green” initiative to help keep RHS graduation gowns out of the landfills and help them get recovered, reused, and repurposed! The PTSA will pilot the program this year to determine interest and feasibility and we hope you will help us make it succeed!

Donate and Give a gown for next year's grad!

Do you desire to be environmentally-friendly and help your gown/cap/tassel get reused that would otherwise be tossed away? The PTSA will sort the donations and next year's seniors will be able to look through the gowns for reuse!

Drop-off dates/times: During diploma pick-up: Tue, June 16: 8am - 3:30pm, Wed, June 17: 8am - 12:00pm Noon
Drop-off location: Portable 3
"Give-A-Gown" 3 Easy Steps to Donate:
1. Roll your gown neatly.
2. Put a rubberband around your rolled gown.
3. Drop gown/cap/tassel into large cardboard bin labeled "Gowns Going Green”
Notes:
- Gowns must have been purchased for or after "Class of 2021"
- Gowns must be clean and reusable
- All donations are FINAL, and gowns cannot be returned

The RHS PTSA is proud to continue the “Gowns Going Green” program to help keep RHS graduation gowns out of the landfills and help them get recovered, reused, and repurposed!

We’re proud to share that this program is now featured on the Lake Washington District website, highlighting how RHS PTSA is making an impact across the school district. Even more exciting, we’ve been asked to help share and replicate this program across other high schools in the district!

RHS PTSA has also been bestowed the honor of receiving the LWPTSA "Your Rock" award. The You Rock! award honors LWPTSA Council member PTAs who—through time, creativity and community—help students build for the future by doing something deserving of recognition throughout the district. You Rock! awards are presented at monthly Council membership meetings.

Program Background:

Did you know that over the past 30 years, the scholastic industry transitioned from cotton to polyester, the popular petroleum-based fabric of the 1970s. Polyester is constructed out of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the same chemical compound used to make plastic water bottles. This product has been positioned as a ‘one-time’ use or ‘keepsake’ item, when the product has only been worn for 90 minutes. In that 30-year time period, over 100 million gowns have been added to the waste stream, which causes detrimental problems to the environment. Do you remember what you did with your graduation gown? Is it still sitting in a dusty box in the attic or did it end up in the trash? How can we ‘graduate’ from trashing gowns to reusing them?

The RHS PTSA is proud to have started the “Gowns Going Green” initiative in 2024-2025 to help keep RHS graduation gowns out of the landfills and help them get recovered, reused, and repurposed! With each gown donation/reuse, we'll all be good stewards of our planet. Help turn this initiative into a yearly movement!