“Where does your electricity come from?” This is an ideal question for the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? in which grade-school level questions are posed to adults. Amazingly enough, many adults and children alike have no idea where the energy that powers their TVs and all their other their plug-in, switch-on gadgets and appliances comes from.
Sundance Power Systems sees energy education as a critical component in our society’s shift to clean energy and is committed to supporting a range of educational opportunities in the community. This fall our Marketing & Outreach Coordinator, Erika Schneider, spent 7 days with over 750 fifth graders and their teachers at Conservation Field days in Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey counties. In twenty quick minutes, she was challenged to give an overview of our energy picture with the hope that they would be inspired to learn more, and become engaged in solutions.
See what kids learned at “The Solar Quest Station,” and the other conservation stations by viewing the video below that was filmed at the Soil & Water Conservation Field Day held on September 21.
