Junior Level School of the Year
Bullitt Lick Middle School
555 W. Blue Lick Rd.
Shepherdsville, KY 40165
Project Title: Learn, Conserve, and Serve
Project Adviser: Robin Handloser

The BLMS NEED Team began as a student choice seminar class.  We started learning the Science of Energy experiments and before we could blink, Mrs. Handloser had scheduled us to teach 60 adults at a NEED Educator Workshop. In addition to teaching Science of Energy, we worked with small teacher groups modeling Electrolysis and Methane Steam Reforming from NEED’s H2 Educate.

After this workshop, we were hooked, and were soon invited to help with another. At our second workshop, we met our district’s Energy Manager. She scheduled us for our third workshop. This time we would be teaching in our own district and we would be in charge of the whole thing! This workshop included Science of Energy and Monitoring and Mentoring!

Our district-wide workshop was awesome; we reached 10 teachers and 68 kids that will start NEED Teams at their schools.  We are now the NEED Team trainers in our district. We have reached a total of 120 teachers this year and we hope they will reach thousands of kids.
Our recipe was simple, we learned the material and served others by teaching them how to start their own NEED Teams.  Our side projects included paper reusing, CFL education, and monitoring power usage in our school.