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For folks in the science education world, yesterday was a BIG day – the day the final draft of the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were released. Think of it like Harry Potter Book 8 for the science world.
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Rebecca is an ACE Educator and the ACE Team Scientist. She's done research in the Arctic and Antarctic and loves to geek-out on all things climate science-related! Ask her a question at science@climateeducation.org.
The Power of Awesome
November 10th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
“Energizing.” “Innovative.” “Bold.” “Inspiring passion and solutions.” “Kick-starting a generation into action.” These are just a few of the rave reviews ACE has received from teachers, administrators and students over the last two years for our work activating high school students on climate change.
We asked our fans and supporters to tell us what makes ACE awesome. Check out this awesome video, featuring Van Jones, to see what they had to say:
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Earth Task Force Brings ACE to New Vista
September 22nd, 2011 by Gaby
This is a guest post by Gracie Currier-Tate, student at New Vista High School in Colorado.
On September 8th, ACE (Alliance for Climate Education) visited New Vista High School (NVHS) for a very special annual treat. Amy Atkins, a senior educator for ACE, presented an interactive video with a mission to educate and inspire students to battle climate change. It’s up to date with the latest scientific information, and it just might make you cry. Whether you cry out of hope or out of sadness, the ACE presentation is guaranteed to make you want to make a change.
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Gaby is a East Coast transplant and a new addition to the ACE Oakland team. She loves coming up with and sharing new, cool ideas about green technologies and trends. Follow her on Twitter at @Gabyberk!
Another Garden Grows in Brooklyn
June 27th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
Written by Calisa Grant, a senior at Thomas Jefferson Campus high school in Brooklyn, New York, and a two-time ACE trained student leader.
At Thomas Jefferson Campus high school in Brooklyn, New York, a few students (myself included) from two of the four schools at the campus have participated in the creation of the Thomas Jefferson Campus Garden. The idea of creating a garden came about from a summer program that was launched by Slow Food NYC Neighborhood Farm. In the summer of 2010, Slow Food NYC Neighborhood Farm created three gardens in Brooklyn. At these gardens, day camps were held – kids were taught how to plant, maintain a garden, and how to cook nutritional food from the produce they planted. A few students and alumni from Thomas Jefferson Campus high school got internships as assistant counselors at the three gardens.
As the school year started in September 2010, Brownsville Multi-Service (BMS), a partner of Slow Food NYC Neighborhood Farm, decided they wanted to do something similar with our school. The director of School Based Health Center (SBHC) at our school who works with BMS started a Wellness Committee at my high school with the students who did the Slow Food garden internship in the summer. The Wellness Committee was formed to promote a healthy lifestyle, and from there, the idea of creating a garden on our campus started.
On Pennsylvania and Blake Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, there is an empty space that is attached to my school. That space used to be a garden that was run by a lady name Mrs. Eileen Peters, but after she left, that space became a home for weeds and trash. But we wanted this to change.
The students in the Wellness Committee, along with the help of a local farmer and a handful of other interested staff and students have worked together to make this space a garden again! The purpose of creating the Thomas Jefferson Campus Garden is to bring fresh, organic vegetables, fruits and herbs into the East New York community. East New York is a community with a high percentage of obesity and diabetes. There is not a sufficient amount of gardens or supermarkets in this community. It is mostly composed of bodegas and fast food restaurants, so the TJC Garden will help change the lives of many in this community. We hope to open a farmers market in the summer of 2011 and sell the produce to the community of an affordable price.
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Firsthand Account: Shreya’s Journey to the White House
June 24th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
Written by Shreya Indukuri, ACE Youth Advisory Board Member and incoming Senior at the Harker School in San Jose, CA.
Exactly a week ago, Daniela and I had the amazing opportunity to speak at the White House. I know, pretty unbelievable, right?
We were fortunate enough to have the amazing opportunity to speak at the White House Grid Modernization Event, and to meet with Secretary of Energy, Steve Chu, and the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack. We spoke about our SmartPowerEd.org work at various local high schools and how low-cost smart energy technology is transforming schools. We were even streamed live on the whitehouse.gov website! It was so incredible and we were pleasantly surprised to have such high-ranking officials applaud and support our efforts! One of the officials even told us that we practically “upstaged” two secretaries.
Aside from the incredible speaking opportunity, the rest of the Grid Modernization Event was pretty interesting in and of itself. The term “grid modernization” sounds complicated but the event basically created discussion among technology leaders, businessmen, and on government officials on how to revamp our country’s currently high-carbon-emission electric grid.
We attended a breakout group where government and tech leaders discussed scaling new energy efficiency models in the US. Neither Daniela nor I are experts on energy policy so we expected to get lost in all of the jargon but we actually found it engaging and practical. It was great to see how much people cared about implementing new solutions across the US and if you listened carefully, a lot of their ideas made sense and seemed feasible…
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100,000 Americans
May 19th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
We officially launched DOT around Earth Day 2010 – a little over 1 year ago, and today we crossed a serious milestone: 100,000 DOTs from students across the country.
That’s 100,000 conversations – many of them from students talking to students in their own schools.
It means that 100,000 people pledging to make changes in their own lives that would help our environment and cool our climate.
This is a groundswell.
DOTs came in from all over the country in the last year – from rural towns in Maine to the busy streets of Los Angeles, from the mountain towns of Colorado to the back-country of Arkansas, and from high school students in New York City, San Francisco and many places in between. They came in from school-wide assemblies, solar-powered laptops on our Connect the DOTs Biobus tour
and celebrities. This is a web of change that spreads across the United States.
DOT has been – and remains – a bridge for ACE to forge relationships with new partners and go places like X Games, LA Live and Sony Pictures Studios.
DOT has been – and remains – a bridge for students who see the ACE Assembly to apply their knowledge to make a positive impact on the planet. It’s an invitation to action. And it’s working.
2011 has been a great for ACE milestones – we’ve just reached our 850,000th student with our award-winning assembly, trained more than 1,000 students in our leadership trainings and have seen more than 700 projects completed in schools across the country…
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Analy Tigers work ferociously towards a sustainable future
January 12th, 2011 by ACE Alumni
In the small town of Sebastopol, you will find a group of students who are up to big things.
The Eco Action Club at Analy High School has emerged as a force for carbon-cutting change…
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Contest: Go Big or Go Home ACE LA!
May 12th, 2010 by ACE Alumni
How about going for the glory? The ACE team is ready to reward one team for dominating at the end of the school year. Think it’s your team? Prove it by collecting the most DOTs by June 15.
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Transformers!
March 22nd, 2010 by Lonna
Mrs. Orr’s Environmental Science class at Jonesboro High School in Jonesboro, GA was assigned the task of transforming a typically discarded item into a reusable product. At the end of it all, they found they gave recycled a whole new meaning! See what I mean:
Here I am adorning a cool couture sling bag made completely out of plastic bags!
Another student, took an old …
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Lonna is an educator and YEP! Coordinator in ACE Atlanta. She loves some alliteration, especially about your climate action...Climate change cohorts are crazy cool for curbing carbon causing customs! Shoot me your alliteration on Twitter @LCDawson31