Create a legacy and have a lasting impact!
An Energy and Climate Education Project is a powerful way to bring your team’s knowledge, experience, and inspiration from Generate back to your school and community.
Throughout the Summit, we’ll provide opportunities for your team to consider your own local connections to our program topics and create an education and action plan to synthesize and share what you learned and experienced in Calgary. This could grow into a bigger Energy and Climate Education Project, or could simply be a way for your team to bring their knowledge back to your class. Your team may have project ideas in mind (if so, please include the details in the application form!) or you may use the Summit to start growing ideas.
Upon completion of the summit, each team will have created an education and action plan to synthesize and share what they learned and experienced in Calgary. This could grow into an Energy and Climate Education project!
We know that an education project can be a little daunting, so we’ve created outlines for some of our favourite project ideas below. If your team has an idea that does not fit into the categories below, we’d love to hear about it and work with your team to make it happen. You can also check out past projects that have been done here and consider if you could apply them to your school!
Project possibilities are limitless! Here are some ideas:
- Use what you’ve learned at Generate to start up an A+ for Energy Grant Project in your school. Successful applicants are awarded up to $5,000 to help bring their projects to life! Applications open in February 2025.
- Get your boots on the ground and organize a field trip for your class (or grade) to visit a local energy or climate facility and learn first hand about local practices.
- Start up an environmental club in your school.
- Work with your favorite Generate experts and host an energy or climate education day for your school.
- Implement a “green design” competition to see what your school can create to increase efficiency and sustainability at your school.
- Create your own energy or climate presentation and visit a nearby junior high or elementary school to share all about Alberta’s energy or climate landscape.
- Monitor air quality in your school and community.
- Create an awareness campaign to boost environmental literacy and stewardship in your school.
- Any other creative ideas you may have!
Education Event
Find a creative way to share the information you gain through your summit experience with your school or community.
Examples:
- Work with your favorite Generate experts and host an energy and climate education day at your school
- Organize a tour of a local energy and/or climate facilities with your class
- Organize a field trip for your class (or grade) to see energy and climate innovations in action
- Get creative and spread the word with a video, art display etc.
Changing Behaviours - change the culture
Improve your school and community environmental stewardship by working on a behaviour changing campaign!
Examples:
- Create an awareness campaign to boost environmental literacy and stewardship in your school
- Reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, rethink of ways to change some common practices in your school to benefit the environment
- Establish a new club/team focused on environmental initiatives
Interested in doing something else?
None of these ideas fit? That’s okay - bring whatever environmental project idea your team has and we will work with you to make it happen! Contact Adean Alessandrini or Braeden Elenko to discuss your ideas.
Get more inspiration from past projects that have been implemented by student leadership teams that have attended past summits.
St. Mary Catholic School, Westlock
St. Mary students identified that the lights in their school’s bathrooms were inefficient incandescent bulbs and did not have motion sensors. They recognized that installing approximately 90 LED programmable motion sensor light switches into all the bathrooms in the school would greatly decrease the school’s energy usage and ecological footprint. They presented their proposal to the school division and it was approved! The school division agreed to fund and install motion sensor switches and replace all the incandescent lights with LEDs.
St. Francis Xavier, Edmonton
The team developed a school-wide thrift store to promote sustainability in their school community. The St. Francis Xavier student body and faculty donated used clothing to help those in need while limiting overconsumption and preventing more tactiles from entering local landfills. Students also delivered a presentation to elementary students along with a number of hands-on activities aimed at teaching the impact of reducing waste, protecting habitats, and working toward a more sustainable future.
New Myrnam School, Myrnam
As part of New Myrnam School’s ongoing commitment to energy innovations and advancements, students conducted a forensic energy audit and presented their findings to the Village of Myrnam Council. The team then proceeded with the installation of a ground-mountal solar array, followed by monitoring and maintenance. The team hopes the project will provide valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities of implementing renewable energy solutions in a rural community.