Session #17 - Jan 7, 2023
Updated Competition Schedule. Innovation Project Sharing

Schedule Update

• Super-Regional Competition was announced for January 28th. 

• The team scored two presentations of their Energy Project at professionals. One of the weaknesses of the innovation project was that it was not shared with professionals.

WIA Innovation Project Presentation

Weslyan International Academy is a Charter School in Atlanta, and Larry's mom is a volunteer school board member. The team got invited to present their idea and solicit feedback from the head of the school board via ZOOM on January 21!

GEFA Innovation Project Presentation

Leon, with the help of Coach Bernd, composed an email to GEFA - the Georgia Environmental and Financial Authority. A State body tasked with Energy and Water conservation. GEFA was very kind and invited the team to present their idea at the office on January 26.

Presentation Preparation 

The team was tasked to alter their presentation to make it suitable for presenting at WIA and GEFA

Questions for the Professionals

The team developed questions for the professionals around making their behavior-changing energy conservation project better. Here the questions the team developed:

•Do you think this is going to work? - Larry

•How do we convince people to do it? - Leon

•How do we get people to care about saving energy? - Leon

•We gave the sign to our teacher, she said she would put it on the wall but it is still not there. What should we do? - Daniel

•How can we make our energy saving idea better? - Brandon

•How can we reach more people with our idea? - Brandon

•How else can we save energy? - Larry

•How can we use technology to remind us to turn the lights off? - Daniel

•Can we ask the governor to give the schools money to upgrade light switches to motion sensors? - Larry