So today I received an email for Samsung telling me Juda had won the State competition for their Solve for Tomorrow contest. I was very excited - winning is good, being the state winner is awesome, round 2 is making a video which is exciting (there are 50 state winners and 5 go to the "finals"), and $20,000 of Samsung products will be great. And though I did do some work on the grant, it was a combined effort with my Physics class. They brainstormed, wrote, and are the bigger part of the "win" and more importantly are the major cog in making the next step in our solar, green energy project happen.
Our project is to push hard and make Juda get 10% of its energy from green supplies (increasing another 6% beyond what the current solar array does). And more importantly showing other schools how they can do this project. Rolling out our documents, our lessons, and using our video to get people excited. Students can make change. It will help by showing how they can get green, reduce their school's operating costs and show how students, whether in a class or an organization, can take ownership in making their school, their community, their world a better place. Our video will support this vision!
So today I am simply over-joyed, so were my students. Tomorrow we start this year's project - with funding already there. Ahhh.
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