Youth Policy Summit on Greenhouse Gas Reduction
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The Keystone Science School has brought its national Youth Policy Summit program and its CSI: Climate Status Investigations teacher training workshop to Michigan!
Keystone and Western Michigan University’s Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education (MGRRE) partnered to present the 2009 Youth Policy Summit on Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Michigan and will be organizing another summit for the summer of 2010 on Energy Innovation in Michigan. The 2010 application will be available soon.
The 2009 Summit is over and the students' report has been published! Download the full report (pdf) or an executive summary (pdf). Stay tuned for more information on the 2010 Summit.
Open to highly motivated 11th and 12th grade students from across the state, the next Summit will be held on the WMU campus in Kalamazoo, Michigan during the summer of 2010. If your school would like to participate, please look over the application from last year or contact Annemarie Fussell at Keystone (afussell@keystone.org; 970-455-4231) or Susan Grammer at WMU (susan.grammer@wmich.edu; 269-387-8642). The 2010 application should be available in November 2009. For information on past Summits see: http://www.youthpolicysummit.org/ or http://youthpolicysummit.org/content/view/87/136/
While the students were busy coming to consensus on the 2009 recommendations to be made to government and industry officials, teachers participated in a Keystone Science School Climate Status Investigations teacher training workshop. For more information on the CSI curriculum, contact Wendi Liles at wliles@keystone.org. The workshop will be back in 2010.
“Keystone was an amazing opportunity! Not only did I get interested in energy efficiency as a result of the Keystone conference, but I also realized how much of an impact energy efficiency has on my everyday life. Because of the Youth Policy Summit, I know that I want to be involved in a career that deals with energy efficiency. When we finished our policy recommendations, there was an awesome sense of accomplishment that everyone in the group noticed, even the adults. I am extremely proud of the recommendations we created and look forward to seeing what happens to our policy in the future.”
Caroline Morel, Battle Creek Area Mathematics & Science Center
-student participant from 2007 Energy Efficiency Summit
To help sponsor Keystone's 2010 Michigan Youth Policy Summit contact Annemarie Fussell at afussell@keystone.org (970-455-4231).
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