First Flush video posted on ACE website!
The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) is dedicated to educating high school students on the science behind climate change to inspire them to take action against global warming. We LOVE ACE! They helped us when we participated in The Biggest Loser Energy Competition, Captains Patricio and Alexis attended Raise Your Voice trainings with them, and last year we competed in the Star Wars competition and won a solar charger. On April 5th, they blogged about our First Flush video on their “Hot and Bothered Blog”.
ACE rocks!
Here’s a link to the post: http://www.acespace.org/blog/
QuikSCience Recognition Event: Here we come!
The Streets to Sea challenge!
Bag team and Car team joined forces to compete in Generationearth’s Streets to Sea challenge. The five of us competing are: Alexis Saez (bag team), Angelina Hwang (car team), Edie Cote (bag team), Ivan Morales (car team), and Matilda Mead (bag team). For this competition, Edie and Matilda conducted a watershed audit of our schools campus.
They found:
20 green- places water can get into ground: grass, bare dirt, and gardens
15 blue- sources of water: faucets, drinking fountains, sprinklers, and hoses
15 purple- places where water travels: gutters, drains, concrete, and asphalt
13 red X- things harmful to water: food trash, candy wrappers, motor oil, and pet waste
37 yellow circles- areas of concern with lots of trash
We then submitted info on our campaigns to teach the community on Single-use plastics(bag team) and alternative energies(car team) and how they relate to our campus watershed audits. Our primary messages of theses campaigns: to REFUSE single-use plastics and to RETHINK our ways of life.
First Flush Video posted on 5gyres website!
The 5gyres institute is dedicated to eliminate plastic pollution in all 5 subtropical gyres.
We are proud to call them partners, and On March 26, 2012, they posted a blog featuring the first flush video we made.
Thanks 5gyres!
Link to the blog post:
http://5gyres.org/posts/2012/