Project GREEN 2024
June 5th and 6th, 2024. 8:30-3:30. Riverstone International School
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Highlights from Project GREEN 2024 Summit
This was the 6th year of the annual conference. This years theme was GRIT- get gritty and get sustainable! This was an amazing year for the Project GREEN Sustainability Summit. We had motivated and engaged participants, highly knowledgeable speakers and presenters and great field trips each day. The theme of Grit provided an interesting lens through which to examine classroom experiences in sustainability and the Riverstone international school was a great venue for teachers and professionals to explore classroom and whole school sustainability together.
Day 1 Highlights
- Keynote Address: Looking back to think forward: Spaces for History in Sustainability by Emily Wakild, Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Boise State University. She is the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands in the School of Public Service.
- Climate change and its Impacts on Health, Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health. Dr. Ethan Sims
- Exploring Links Between Mental Health, Outdoor Education and Climate Change – Boise State Geosciences and iCLEER. Dr. Jen Pierce
- IDEEA Annual Educators of the Year – Award Ceremony.
- Sustainability in the Classroom – Riverstone International School, MYP Design. Sydney Bergen
- Learn about the EcosySTEM– SWISH. ReBekha Lulu
- Field Trip – Warm Springs Creek. Blake Schnebly, Bruce Johnstone, Andy Brunelle – Trout Unlimited, HRWMA and student project.
Day 2 Highlights
- Energy Efficiency for Schools – Idaho Power. Chris Pollow. The Idaho Power Energy Efficient School Cohort, successes and school opportunities.
- The Confluence Project– University of Idaho. Woody Wood. What is the project and opportunities to bring it to the Treasure Valley.
Breakout Presentations:
- Get to Know Your H2O– Project WET & The WaterShed. Cindy Busche and Augie Gabrielli
- Student-driven Greener Schools– PLT & IFPC. Michelle Youngquist & Haven Davis-Martinez
- Conservation Education in Your Classroom– Ada Soil and Water Conservation District. Crystal Davidson
- Hands-on Environmental Stewardship: Invasive species and associated management techniques– Boise Parks and Recreation. Martha Brabec and Kristin Gnojewski
- Grant Application & Support– Bogus Basin, Project GREEN. Grant List. Dirk Anderson, Blake Schnebly
- Field Trip- Foote Park. To cap off the summit we ended with a field Trip to Foote Park led by Augie Gabrielli from The WaterShed. We explored Boise’s Environmental Lives; Past, Present and Future – it was a great way to end a successful conference.
As always we offered mini-grants to teachers to adopt what they learned in this conference to their own classrooms and we were grateful for the support of Ada Soil and Water Conservation District to offer teacher attendees the opportunity to apply for grants for projects that support their community outreach goals as well!
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Project GREEN 2024! Thanks to Riverstone International School for hosting.
Big thanks to our Sponsors: Idaho Power, IDEEA, Ada Soil & Water Conservation District and Partners for Clean Water and all of our project partners!
THANK YOU!
Thanks to our 2024 Sponsors and Partners. The success of the Project GREEN summit is made possible by all the support we get from our sponsors and partners. Project GREEN is also grateful to the committee members who help plan this event every year, making sure we stay relevant and fulfill our mission. THANK YOU sponsors, partners and committee members!
