Green Options » NEED program http://greenoptions.com/tag/need-program Posts tagged 'NEED program' Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Solar S’mores, Blackout Wednesdays Win Florida Kids Green Honors http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/21/solar-smores-blackout-wednesdays-win-florida-kids-green-honors/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/21/solar-smores-blackout-wednesdays-win-florida-kids-green-honors/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:56:53 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/21/solar-smores-blackout-wednesdays-win-florida-kids-green-honors/ NEED Program logo.Two groups of Pensacola kids are off to Washington, D.C., after taking top honors in the National Energy Education Development Program (NEED). Among the achievements that helped get them there: s’mores baked in a solar oven and Blackout Wednesdays in which students turned off classroom lights and relied on sunlight instead.

The Suter Energy Savers, a team of fourth-graders at Suter Elementary School, won at the elementary level for their work on 28 conservation projects in all. Their efforts included collecting $200 worth of recyclables, distributing flyers at area coffee shops urging customers to switch to compact fluorescent lightbulbs and making s’mores in a solar oven.

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