Grant Winners

GRANT DEADLINE COMING SOON:

ACE ACTION GRANTS: MARCH 12, 2010

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ACE's School Action Grant program aims to help students lower their school's carbon footprint and raise climate awareness in major ways. At ACE, we believe collaboration and hard work are the keys to success! Check out ACE's 2009 School Grant Award winners below and apply today for your chance to win up to $5000 for your Action Team's carbon-reducing project.!

Andrew P. Hill High School - San Jose, CA

Andrew Hill High School – San Jose, California
Andrew Hill HS will use the ACE grant to educate all incoming freshman on the leading causes of greenhouse gases and equip them with the knowledge, tools and opportunities to reduce their personal carbon footprint and become leaders in facilitating systematic carbon footprint reduction. Using new computers, air quality measurement probes and software and help from neighboring Cogswell Polytechnic College, the entire 9th grade class will have access to top-notch, interactive climate education.

The Athenian School - Danville, CA

The Athenian School – Danville, California
With an on-site organic garden that annually produces over 1,200 pounds of food for the school cafeteria and a campus-wide carbon audit in progress, the Athenian School is already at the vanguard of the school sustainability movement. Now, as an ACE grant recipient, Athenian will expand upon their stewardship practices. With their ACE grant, Athenian will 1) construct a biodiesel reactor that can produce 40 gallons of biodiesel weekly from waste vegetable oil (WVO) to fuel their bus fleet 2) develop a school-wide carpool program using an interactive mapping system and 3) have students convert a standard vehicle to an electric vehicle.

The Harker Upper School - San Jose, CA

The Harker Upper School – San Jose, California
With two ambitious student leaders charging the way, the Harker School’s new Carbon Challenge Club aims to reduce the school’s carbon footprint by 20% each year. With the support of ACE grant funding, the club plans to tackle three major projects this fall. 1) Insulating all South facing windows of a major building most directly hit by sunlight in order to to make the building’s temperature more effective. 2) Install Smart Meters in ¼ of classrooms reduce energy consumption and also spark behavior change among students through awareness. 3) Build an organic campus garden that will provide food for the cafeteria as well as will provide hands-on educational opportunities for students.

Rodriguez High School - Fairfield, CA

Rodriguez High School - Fairfield, California
With the money from the ACE grant, students at Rodriguez are working together to design, build and maintain a school garden located on school property. Rodriguez also plans to enhance their campus recycling system so that it is more effective. Their strategy? Make recycling more fun with specially designed recycling carts and rewards. Finally, Rodriguez students and staff are replacing the paper towel dispensers in their bathrooms with hand dryers to help reduce waste and reduce their carbon footprint.

Civicorps Corpsmember Academy – Oakland, California
As a charter high school serving 18-24 year olds who did not have success in traditional high schools, the Corpsmember Academy will use the ACE grant to develop six-week seminars focusing on climate issues, as well as provide hands-on learning opportunities for students in the emerging green jobs sector. Students will lead energy audits of all three Civicorps Schools and also—with the help of a consultant—convert two of the school diesel vans to biodiesel.

Wilcox High School - Santa Clara, California
Wilcox's motivated student leaders are heading up efforts on campus to stop the use of plastic water bottles. First step: make the water on campus taste delicious and just like bottled water by adding filters to four of the schools most trafficked water fountains. Then students plan to sell reusable water bottles and create awareness on campus about the importance of reusing your water bottle! Students are also working to build a garden on campus that the school's culinary class will be able to use for fresh and very local veggies they can cook with.

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