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and the following Connecticut Science Centers Audubon GreenwichThe Children's Garbage and Trash Museums The Children's Museum Connecticut Audubon Society Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo The Discovery Museum Eli Whitney Museum Kellog Center for the Environment Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration SoundWaters Stamford Museum and Nature Center Yale Peadody Museum of Natural History |
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2010 Winners Announced! CONNECTICUT SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN THE KEEP CONNECTICUT COOL CHALLENGE AWARDS
On April 26th, Connecticut students faced the judges for the 2010 Keep CT Cool Climate Change Challenge Awards at the new Connecticut Science Center in Hartford. Six prizes from $1,000 to $3,000 were awarded for the students' climate change solutions. The top prize winners were Nathan
Hale/SEMI Elementary, New London and EO Smith
High School, Storrs, each winning $3000. The schools to win the $1000 prizes were as follows: Lyman High School, South Windsor High School, Danbury High School, Coventry High School.
Projects included recycling and energy efficiency actions in schools, such as energy audits, thermostats and sensors, light replacements and energy saving behaviors. Others included replacing Styrofoam trays in lunchrooms, raising climate awareness with student and community TV messages, family forums, film festivals, energy fairs, and music events. Also represented were projects to purchase rain forest land and carbon sequestration, support local farms, purchase solar installations and a "green" school store. Many teams presented proposals to their board of education and town councils.
This year 19 teams submitted plans for judging. Towns represented included Coventry, Danbury, East Lyme, Farmington, Lebanon, Meridan, New London, Stafford Springs, Stamford, Trumbell, Wallingford and Westport. Keep Connecticut Cool was started in 2006 as the Cool It Challenge, hosted by Clean-Air-Cool Planet and funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The program has been administered by the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University since 2007, and changed names to Keep Connecticut Cool in 2008. To date 47 teams, involving more than 450 students have worked to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their schools and communities.
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Phase One $1000 Team Work Lyman High School, Lebanon $1000 Collaboration South Windsor High School $3000 Best Overall Plan EO Smith High School, Storrs
Phase Two $1000 Team Work Danbury High School $1000 Collaboration Coventry High School $3000 Best Overall Plan Nathan Hale/SEMI Elementary, New London 30 teams were in the running---working hard on Climate Solutions!Check out the 2010 Team Projects
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