Centre scolaire de Samuel-de-Champlain
Grade 6 and 7 students at the Centre scolaire de Samuel-de-Champlain in New Brunswick are retrofitting the lighting systems in six classrooms.
Centre scolaire de Samuel-de-Champlain
Grade 6 and 7 students at the Centre scolaire de Samuel-de-Champlain in New Brunswick are retrofitting the lighting systems in six classrooms.
The Problem
Grade 6 and 7 students at the Centre scolaire de Samuel-de-Champlain in New Brunswick do impact-based project learning every year, but this year a group of them took on a project of a larger scale. Their school building was starting to get older and so they decided to see how much energy their lighting systems used and how much more money these old light bulbs were costing them.
The Solution
The students researched and learned about the lighting retrofit process as six classrooms had more efficient lighting systems implemented. They also took media training to learn how to talk about the problem and the solution so they could teach others at their school! Finally, the students thought big and tracked how much money the school saved from the retrofit to use in a presentation pitch to the school board to ask them to fund the retrofit of the entire school.
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students and teachers worked directly on the project, engaging 362 other students and teachers in their school!
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community members were engaged with the project at their annual impact project science fair.
Lessons Learned
“Because of the effort of a handful of students we managed to reduce the footprint of the entire sector, and one of those students had the opportunity last summer to go to champion the environment and project-based learning to more than 300 adults at an education conference!”
William Duncan, Lead Teacher
“I really learned that one small change can make a huge difference, like just changing a few lights in a school can impact schools all around the world to make a huge global impact, to also be benefiting students, teachers, while also saving money and the environment.”
Lincoln Bell, Student
