Youth Awards
For one weekend in June every summer, teachers and students from all over the country gather in our nation’s capital to celebrate their achievements in energy education. These teachers and students worked hard all year long, creating energy related projects that increase awareness in their communities and take strides toward a more sustainable society. The…
Read MoreMedia Announcements and Offerings – Summer 2012
Back to School with Energy Ant The Franklin County High School (TN) students visit Arlington County (VA) Chevy Volt. Shannon Johnson Teacher Attends Energy Education Conference The 32nd Annual NEED Youth Awards recognizes students for Outstanding Energy Projects PECO Energizing Energy Program & Overbrook Environmental Education Center. Students from Philadelphia Schools learn and teach about wind energy.
Read MoreEnergy Literacy
A guest blog written by Matthew Inman, U.S. Department of Energy What We’re Doing & Why To better educate Americans, The U.S. Department of Energy is leading a collaborative effort, the Energy Literacy Initiative (ELI), to define and promote energy literacy. If more people had a basic understanding of energy, energy resources, generation and efficiency, families…
Read MoreGreen Idea Factory
The Project for Innovation, Energy & Sustainability (PiES) held the first annual Green Idea Factory Competition on April 14th as part of the 2012 North Carolina Science Festival. Students from Lake Norman area high schools presented a number of energy efficiency and other green project ideas. Scholarship Awards are awarded for First and Second Place, Honorable…
Read MoreTour de Energy Bike
The Tour de Energy Bike continued today at Lewisdale Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland. Lewisdale Elementary celebrated Earth Day today with a wide variety of hands on activities that, in NEED spirit, had the 5th and 4th grade students working as presenters for the younger students. Presentations included everything from pedaling for power on the…
Read MorePedaling for Power!
Constellation Energy hosted Energy Education Day at Sunset Elementary in Pasadena, MD on March 23rd! All of the 4th and 5th grade students participated in activities using the energy bike which allows them to pedal the bike to generate electricity to power light bulbs. DaNel Hogan, an Einstein Educator Fellow at the Department of Energy and a…
Read MoreTestimonial
At NEED, we love what we do. We are always honored that you love it too! So it’s always a real treat to hear how our curriculum and commitment to student leadership impacts students across the country. Recently, an Elementary School in Rhode Island shared a story that touched us and we wanted to share it with you. I needed to share this story with…
Read MoreBenefits of LED Lights in the Classroom
Children learn much more by the examples that adults in their lives set than they do by simply listening to what they are told. We are teaching our children to find ways to live in a more environmentally friendly manner, but showing them easy ways to do so makes a greater impact. Replacing incandescent or…
Read MoreGas prices got you down? Feel powerless? Heres how to fight back
Listening to the news recently I heard commentators talking about current gas prices. They are heading north of $3.40 per gallon in my area at the moment. The commentator went on to talk about predictions toward summer hitting $5.00 per gallon or more. As a nation – we have already cut back on optional driving as a…
Read MoreSierra Middle Schools Solarbration, Bakersfield, CA
On January 19th, Sierra Middle School in Bakersfield California celebrated the official opening of their 20 kilowatt solar array. The array was made possible with a grant of $200,000 from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which sponsors the California Solar Schools Program. Sierra MS and it’s club the Kids for Solar Energy, has been part…
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