FLORIDA Ferry Pass Middle School Junior Level Pensacola, FL Project Title: Ferry Pass Educates about Energy Project Advisor: Carolyn Wuest
This year the Ferry Pass Middle School Energy Management team continued being responsible for the school-wide recycling of paper, plastic, and aluminum. We emptied room containers and supplied clean bags. We learned about the forms of energy and energy transformations by using the Science of Energy kit. We helped one of ESE teachers learn how to use the kit himself so that he could work with his students. We also invited him and his students into our classrooms for the Energy of Light and our Solar experiments. They also enjoyed using our mini solar cookers to make their own s’mores. The Thursday before Spring Break our students passed out forms to all the teachers, administrators, and clerical workers about shutting down everything before leaving Friday for Spring Break. Friday afternoon they collected these forms and turned them over to our assistant principal who used them to complete her district form for Spring Break shutdown. We investigated how many kWh our computers and monitors were using—especially since they are left on 24 hours a day for 5 days. We came up with some savings just using the 150 computers in our computer labs. We have a total of 693 computers, so we have more investigating to do next year!
STATE SPOTLIGHT: FLORIDA Florida schools participate in NEED workshops, receive grants and solar installations compliments of NEED’s partnership with FPL, and have the opportunity to learn about renewable energy and energy efficiency at Gulf Power sponsored Energy Expos and NEED workshops. Gulf Power provides NEED handson kits and curriculum to schools throughout the Gulf Power service area. In summer
2013 NEED Annual Report
2013, Gulf Power is sponsoring a summer energy camp for 300 students hosted at Florida State University in Panama City. The students will be working with NEED’s solar, wind, and hydropower curriculum and hands-on explorations! Summer Energy Camp = Fun!
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