www.GoGreenFestival.com
|
7th Annual
Go Green Electric Car Show October 3, 2020 The 7th annual Go Green Electric Car Show is presented in cooperation with the National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) being celebrated. The Go Green Electric Car Show will take place October 3, at the Toys R Us parking lot in Cranberry Square Shopping Center, 1,000 Cranberry Square Dr., Cranberry Twp., PA 16066 from noon till 3 PM. The show is open to all owners, dealers, and manufacturers of plug-in BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles), and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles) including cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, bikes, tractors, boats, go-carts, and any vehicle that plugs into the electrical grid or solar power supply. Sponsored nationally by Nissan, Sierra Club, Plug-in America, Flo, and the Electric Auto Association. Go Green Festival, 2017
|
Nick Benec, the First Place Winner of the Junior High division, a seventh grader at Butler Catholic School, (teacher sponsor: Jayne Chobot) won the award for "Got Clean Water?" His project focused on collecting water samples from various waterways, measuring pH, nitrates, alkalinity, and several other water chemistry parameters. He then tested the water by germinating lettuce seeds and comparing the effects. Nick spent most of the day explaining his research to interested attendees.
|
A tenth-grade student, Jensen Ruthenberg, from Wilmington Area MS/HS, pictured here with teacher sponsor Sandra Earl, won Honorable Mention in the Senior Division for "Testing different elements in different types of water". She specifically looked at fracking and its effects on water quality. Jensen spoke with interested people about her findings.
Both of these projects focused on water quality and demonstrated the students' concern about the quality of water and need to bring awareness to water quality issues found in industrial processes such as fracking and also the quality of water found in our waterways. |
The First Place Go Green Award winner of the Senior High Division, Isabelle Lindsay, focused her project on wind turbines, a popular source of renewable energy. Isabelle is a senior at Freeport Senior High School (Donald Orlowski, teacher sponsor). The title of her project was "Placement size and number of tubercles affect VAWT performance" VAWT is a type of wind turbine. She will attend college in the fall and plans to major in engineering.
|