C2S2: Climate Change Student Summit
The pictures include our C2S2 logo, the whole group, Pound students presenting, Chicago on screen, Alaska on screen, students, and all 4 sites on screen.
The first pilot Climate Change Student Summit was held at Morrill Hall, UNL, on Saturday, November 15, 2008. Sixth grade students from five middle schools, Pound, Lefler, Lux, Dawes, and Culler, took part in a half day summit. Thirty-six students prepared presentations from PowerPoints to table demonstrations/exhibits for this day, while thirty-one were able to present them. These students spoke to ANDRILL scientists who supported this day also through comments they provided to the students about their presentations, to answering climate change questions.
The highlight of the summit was the live video conference call with three other sites, Chicago, Greenland, and Alaska. In this call, questions were discussed about our role to protect our earth and what we want our leaders to do to help make it better now. Culture and latitude questions were exchanged about our locations. It was interesting to hear the students from Alaska express their hope for us to "hurry up" and help make the changes we MUST DO so that our environment improves and reduces the CO2 emissions we currently create. Students came away with an excited feeling about challenging their families to "go green" and be alert to the kinds of things we can do to improve our present condition here in our schools, city, state, and the country.
This was an amazing day! We thank our parents who came and volunteered, the teachers who inspired their students, the ANDRILL community of Scientists, Louise Huffman, the Education and Outreach Coordinator from ANDRILL, Lois Mayo, LPS Science Curriculum Specialist, and the Cooper Foundation for funding our project.