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Paddock Students, Teachers To Go To Washington
Student members of two energy clubs at Stuart R. Paddock School and two teachers who are club sponsors will represent Illinois on a National Energy Education Department (NEED) visit to Washington, D.C., at the end of June. They will have the opportunity to tour the Department of the Interior and are scheduled to meet with the Secretary of the Interior.
The Paddock clubs were selected by a panel of energy and business experts through the “Green Economy” program sponsored by the Illinois Department of Consumer Affairs.
Approximately 30 members of the two clubs—the third/fourth-grade Earth ANGELS (Agents for Nurturing and Guarding our Environmental Legacy) and the fifth/sixth-grade Energy Education Helpers—are hoping to make the trip, along with teachers Kathleen Cochrane and Melanie Andres. The clubs and teachers are working to raise funds to finance the visit.
Among the energy conservation projects the clubs implemented during the past school year were: a Science of Energy Family Night at the school, issuing “energy tickets” to classrooms which left lights on at the end of the school day (reducing the number of “violators” from 12 to zero), and developing an optional student pledge to reduce family driving during Earth Week, saving an estimated 300 gallons of gas.
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