Some of the outstanding 2006 participation award entries...
Northcote High School (VIC)
Year 8 students discovered they could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15.6 tonnes each year when they fitted timers to the school urns.
Vermont Secondary College (VIC)
Year 8 students spread the word on sustainable living. Students formed a group called AA or ‘Attitude Adjustment’ to take their energy saving ideas to the school community and beyond.
Hamilton Secondary College (SA)
Students encouraged others to save energy and the planet with posters, brochures and a hip-hop song – complete with beatbox solo! This verse talks about global warming.
- "Boostin’ the electricity
- Boostin’ hydraulics
- Exhaust pipe you right?
- I’m hotter than a sunflower
- The energy effect has got you"
Lyrics by: Cameron, Kiran and John
Hamilton Secondary College students encourage others to save energy.
Craigieburn Secondary College (VIC)
Year 7 researched energy use at home and came up with some saving tips for the kitchen.
- Kitchen tip 1
- Keep lids on pots while cooking.
- Kitchen tip 2
- Simmer instead of boil.
- Kitchen tip 3
- Minimise grilling in oven.
Millicent High School (SA)
Year 8 students became experts on energy efficiency and achieved huge savings at school. Students promoted their energy saving ideas through posters, a comic strip, a quiz show and display at the public library.
Creative comic strip from Millicent High School students.
Eudunda Area School (SA)
Year 9 students switched on to energy efficiency in almost every subject. Students researched energy use and then went on to design and build model homes each with more than 30 energy saving features.
Eudunda Area School students put their energy saving techniques to the test.
Emerson School (VIC)
Students built a model energy efficient house that still had all the mod-cons. Check out the wonderful windmill!
Energy efficient excellence modelled by Emerson School.
Mackillop College (VIC)
The science and wood technology students constructed a scale model energy efficient granny flat built to a five star energy rating and took the model to the local shopping centre to discuss its features with the community.
Mackillop College students model brainy building ideas.
St Joseph's School (VIC)
Year 6 students put energy efficiency on show, creating a display for shoppers at Kmart and treating the school to a special play based on the ‘Three Little Pigs’ with modifications to suit an energy efficient housing theme.
St Joseph’s School put energy advice on show for shoppers.
St Leonard's College (VIC)
St Leonard’s College hosted a Bright Ideas Festival to teach members of the community their energy saving ideas. They even invited the mayor!
St Leonard’s College students host a “Bright Ideas Festival”.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College (SA)
The science club impressed passers-by when they took their energy efficient model house to the local shopping centre. They also visited the local primary school to play an energy efficient game with the help of their mascot ‘Larry the Lightbulb’.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College science club students model magnificent ideas.
Mooroolbark College (VIC)
Students created an energy efficient animation, complete with sign language translation. They showed their animation at the local primary school and also took it to the ‘Red Earth’ environmental showcase in their local community centre.
Mooroolbark College students create energy efficient animations.
Quotes from teachers
"The awards have given the students a sense of purpose. Students were all very motivated when they found out their work was going to be publicly displayed. They knew their work could influence someone."
Matt Pastro, St Joseph ’s School, SA
"It was a great opportunity to raise the profile of sustainability in our school and community, and to stimulate creative thinking about energy saving measures that everyone can put into action."
John Hughes, Oak Park Primary School , VIC
"Sustainability underpins the whole philosophy of our school and we saw the awards as a natural extension of the children’s interest and a positive way to share our understandings and explorations with the community."
Sally Rawlings, St Leonard ’s College, VIC
"I entered students into the awards for the challenge. The project has definitely taught them team work and cooperation. They also wanted to ‘make’ something from what they had learnt."
Phillip Menadue, Emerson Specialist School , VIC