On November 25, 2011, more than 500 cadets from UC-METC and other schools in Cebu attended the waste management seminar at Capt. Susifatro Abella Gymnasium at UC-METC. Of the total students attended the seminar, around 30 students from UC-METC under the CARES program had been sworn in as junior members of SWAPP. The resource speakers from SWAPP and UC-METC took turns in trying to educate the students on the basic solid waste management principles and related topics such as climate change, disaster risks and waste management onboard ships specially presented by UC-METC Campus Director Capt. Arnel N. Malaga.

At the end of the seminar, about 30 Maritime cadets under the CARES program was sworn as junior SWAPP Chapter members The overall goal of SWAPP is to develop the young students as SWAPP trainers and advocates of solid waste management in their campus and in other school as well.