All exhibit booths on 1st and 2nd floors will be open for the entire conference 11:00 AM to
3:30 PM.
Presentations will take place at the following times
in the Auditorium on 2nd floor:
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10:30 AM |
Attendee Registration Desks Open |
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| 11:00
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“National Anthem–Star Spangled Banner”,
by 6 years old, Amita Gowda |
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"Plastic bottle caps -
Environmental impact", by Amita Gowda and Neha Panda
(two 6 years old speakers) |
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Message from Pavan Raj Gowda, 13
years old, Founder of Green Kids
Conference and
Founder of
Green Kids Now, Inc. |
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| 11:15
AM to 12 Noon |
Keynote Speaker: |
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Prof. Dr.
Christopher Viney
Professor, School of Engineering,
UC Merced
Pioneer in Biomimicry (New method of Innovation)
Dr. Viney explains complex materials in terms a lay
audience can understand. He even makes it entertaining with
mixture of songs and sounds, videos and still images, factual
presentation and anecdotes, all delivered interactively and with
humor.
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12:00 noon to 1:00 PM |
Lunch break -
Delicious 100% Vegan Lunch will be available for purchase from 12 noon to 2 PM |
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| 1:00
PM to 1:30 PM |
Award Ceremony |
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Honorable chief guest, Teresa D.
Cox will award the winners and participants. |
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She is a trade advisor to Obama
Administration, and is an expert on alternative resources of
energy. She made national headlines as the first
African-American female to earn a degree in Nuclear Engineering
in the United States.
http://www.ohlone.edu/org/board/bio-cox.html |
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| 1:45
PM to 2:15 PM |
"Why We Must Save
The Frogs!" by Michael Starkey, SAVE THE FROGS! Advisory
Committee Chair, Ecologist
www.savethefrogs.com
Mr. Starkey explains why amphibian populations are declining
around the world and informs the audience about how we as a
society can help save these amazing species from extinction. |
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| 2:30
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"Hidden in Plain Bite: The Power of Our
Food Choices" by Katie Cantrell, Executive Director of
the
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
Kids still grow up singing Old MacDonald, but nowadays 99% of
animals are raised on factory farms. This talk gently introduces
the idea that our food choices have a powerful impact on the
environment, our own health, and our animal friends. |
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Jr. Scientists and Innovators, please arrive
between 9:30 AM to10 AM. Judging will take place 10 AM to 11
AM. You must be available in-person for the judging. Please
check
our science judging criteria for more details.
Thanks to our scientist
judges for their time and efforts!
* Dr. Julie
Hlavacek-Larrondo, Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Stanford University
* Dr. Kiruthika Devaraj,
postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University
Environmental Art Exhibit competive entries
will be judged 10 AM to 11 AM. Due to the large number of
entries, we would like to setup the presentation/display of
all art-works the previous evening Fri, May 31st. Artists do
not need to be present during the judging. Please check
our art judging criteria for more details.
All art work must be dropped off at
Prashanti Art Studio in Fremont, CA on
or before Thurs, May 30th.
Thanks to our artist
judges for their time and efforts!
* Mr. Keith Lark,
Art Teacher/Administrator at Conley Caraballo High
School in Hayward, CA
* Debbie Anne Lewis-
Interior Sustainable Design Writer for Out & About Magazine-
Silicon Valley and the Coast.
* Jen Mc Manus-
Backyard Organic and Sustainable Writer for Out & About
Magazine- Silicon Valley and the Coast.
* Dylan Mc Manus-
Dylan is currently studying Environmental Science at UCSC
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Our Exhibitors:
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US EPA Region 9: The mission of the US
EPA is to protect human health and the environment. EPA's purpose is
to ensure that: all Americans are protected from significant risks
to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work;
national efforts to reduce environmental risk are based on the best
available scientific information; federal laws protecting human
health and the environment are enforced fairly and effectively;
environmental protection contributes to making our communities and
ecosystems diverse, sustainable and economically productive; and the
United States plays a leadership role in working with other nations
to protect the global environment.
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/whatwedo.html
The US EPA Region 9 exhibit will have informational/outreach
materials on children's environmental health and environmental
education.
http://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/region9.html
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ClimateChangeEducation.org would present
two of their major services:
1.) Mobile Climate Science Labs:
http://climatechangeeducation.org/labs/index.html
Fun hands-on science travelling to events, conferences, schools,
businesses, government. Kids INVOLVED in climate change science --
able to THEMSELVES, as kids, BE popular science teachers of adults
and other kids.
2.) Global Warming Kids.net web portal: http://globalwarmingkids.net/
Portal website serving and bringing together kids all over the world
-- groups and clubs, great education and fun resources on climate
change, games, videos, books, much more. Working with hundreds of
programs internationally. http://www.globalwarmingcalifornia.net/
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Acterra - Our mission is
to bring people together to create local solutions for a healthy
planet. Acterra is an environmental non-profit serving the Silicon
Valley. We provide people with tangible, hands-on activities they
can do to improve the environment. All of our work is
solution-oriented. We offer several thousand volunteer opportunities
each year for adults and youth. Because people get excited by
different things, we offer a broad range of programs, from habitat
restoration to carbon reduction and more. As importantly, we teach
people how to become effective environmental change agents in their
communities, neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.
http://acterra.org/
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Save The Frogs
is America's first and only public charity dedicated to amphibian
conservation. Our mission is to protect amphibian populations and to
promote a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife.
http://savethefrogs.com/
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Recycling and Waste
Reduction Commission, County of Santa Clara:
Learn to compost with worms, we offer free classes to adults on how
to compost yard trimmings and food waste.
www.ReduceWaste.org
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The Bay Area Air
Quality Management District is
the public agency entrusted with protecting the air you breathe in
the nine counties around the Bay Area. The Air District's exhibit
will include information on air quality, climate change and public
transportation resources.
www.baaqmd.gov
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Spare the air youth is a program of the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Climate Initiatives
Program, in partnership with the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District. The goal is to educate, inspire and empower Bay Area youth
and their families to change transportation habits in order to
improve air quality and reduce transportation-related greenhouse gas
emissions.
http://sparetheairyouth.org
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Breathe California: We fight lung disease
in all its forms. We provide Asthma services, Clean air programs,
Tobacco control programs, advocacy programs, lung health services.
www.lungsrus.org |
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BALANCE Edutainment: has a children's entertainment
franchise called Pacha's Pajamas that engages pre-teens through
music and story. The recently released Pacha's Pajamas album is
anchored by a powerful and timely story about a little girl whose
magical pajamas whisk her away to an imaginary world where she is
challenged to discover her inner strength. Through her dream
experience, Pacha falls in love with nature and by extension
herself, fully realizing her capacity and responsibility to have
positive impact on the world. The soundtrack features 55 artists
spanning four generations including Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def (Yo Gabba
Gabba, The Boondocks, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe), Cheech
Marin (The Lion King, Cars, Beverly Hills Chihuahua), Talib Kweli,
Majora Carter (Peabody Award winning public-radio series The
Promised Land), Lyrics Born, Lester Chambers (The Chambers
Brothers), Agape Youth Choir and a dozen youth stars including Lil
JaXe and Ta’Kaiya Blaney. Our exhibit will include music, video, and
books.
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Our City
Forest is dedicated to the regeneration
and protecting the urban forest. We have a variety of programs that
provide San Jose residents with free street, and fruit trees. We
also work with local schools to provide students with presentations
aimed at educated them on the importance of trees and how to live a
green and healthy life. We also have tremendous volunteer
opportunities at our nursery, offices and tree planting events.
http://ourcityforest.org/
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SRI International- SRI Environmental Science Instructional Solutions
(SESIS): This exhibit will showcase a
website that kids and teachers can visit to investigate real data
from satellites and models about the environment, both globally and
in any region of the world of the world. The website is a product of
the NASA- funded project called Data Enhanced Investigations for
Climate Change Education (DICCE). This free and publicly available
website contains a series of supportive documents and resources that
explain how to create maps and time series plots about the different
Earth variables available through the site and how to interpret the
data on those maps and plots for signs of climate change. .
Variables include carbon dioxide, temperature, rain, snow, ocean
surface clarity, sea surface temperatures, incoming and outgoing
radiation, land greenness, ozone, and particulate matter. . DICCE
makes everybody feel like an environmental data detective,
uncovering meaning from mystery.
http://sesis.sri.com
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Garden Girls
Youth Exhibitors |
Two Youth Exhibitors would like to
exhibit the benefits of home gardening and using natural techniques
for pest control.
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Youth Exhibitors |
Solar Powered Night Lights instead of
plugged in lights. Saving energy and the environment. Fun and
creative. Safe for kids and pets. Never heats up or burns.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sun-Jars/158882690871507?cropsuccess
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Critter Kids
Youth Exhibitors
2012 Green Champ Award Winners
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Critter Kids - Mobile petting zoo.
Interactive educational program to introduce, advocate and educate
children about exotic animals. To teach responsible pet care and
environmental impacts of the pet trade.
www.facebook.com/critterkids
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The Marine Science Institute is dedicated
to promoting respect and stewardship for the marine environment
through experiential learning. We offer an educational summer camp
that features week-long sessions and are proud to present a sneak
peek at some of the animals and activities enjoyed at our camp.
www.sfbaymsi.org
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U.C. Cooperative Extension, Marin - Come
learn all about trees, forests, and the pests that threaten them. We
will showcase a number of our activities and materials on tree
health, firewood issues, and diseases such as Sudden Oak Death.
www.suddenoakdeath.org
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Santa Clara Valley
Water District:
The mission of the district is a healthy, safe and enhanced quality
of living in Santa Clara County through watershed stewardship and
comprehensive management of water resources in a practical,
cost-effective and environmentally sensitive manner for current and
future generations. The exhibit will include a hands-on activity,
possibly painting easels.
www.valleywater.org
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Food Empowerment Project - We are a vegan
food justice organization that works to inform and empower people
with their food choices. We have a game that we have played the last
two years where kids guess the produce and we have a new fact sheet
for kids on water wasters.
www.foodispower.org
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Santa Clara County Activists for Animals is an
all-volunteer organization dedicated to reducing and eliminating the
suffering of animals and to raising community awareness of animal
issues. We are motivated by compassion to prevent cruelty to all
animals, especially those used for food, clothing, and
entertainment. Our exhibit will have games for children that focus
on animals and literature for parents to take home so that the whole
family can learn more about how their food choices affect our
communities' health and the planet.
http://www.activistsforanimals.org/
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StartOrganic's mission is to empower all communities to
grow at least a portion of their own produce without the use of
herbicides, pesticides, or GMO seeds. StartOrganic primary service
is to build and maintain backyard gardens to take the guessing out
of growing your own food. We will have information on what is being
grown and what can be planted at that point in time. We will also
have general gardening information and will answer any questions you
might have about recommended soils, plant varieties, and our
business. Know where your food comes from, go to the produce section
in your backyard!
http://StartOrganic.org
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Explorabox: Our mission is to develop scientific curiosity
in the kids through hands on activities designed to teach science
concepts. We will have science based interactive activities and
Exploraboxes for kids to explore the world around them.
www.explorabox.org
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Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society - Our mission is to
connect people with nature - to preserve, to enjoy, to restore and
to foster public awareness of native birds and their ecosystems,
mainly in Santa Clara County. We will bring information about our
organization and programs, as well as our teaching collection of
bird specimens - including feathers and wings to touch and examine -
that will help participants learn about our native birds.
www.scvas.org
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Ucan Products is a sustainable consumer products company
that designs, develops and markets the Untrash brand of products for
in-home waste separation. Our goal is to make an inevitable every
day chore easier, fun and maybe even inspiring. All of our products
are designed to drive adoption of green behaviors and untrash our
world. Our food waste can and line of strong reliable compostable
bags are sold through direct, retail and municipal channels.
http://www.ucanproducts.com/
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Environmental Volunteers:
Our Mission: To promote the understanding of and responsibility for
the environment through hands-on science education.
Our Vision: That all children will learn about and be inspired by
the natural world so that they become responsible stewards of the
Earth. We achieve this by: • Providing hands-on science education •
Encouraging awareness of the interrelationships between people and
nature • Fostering an attitude of stewardship for the environment •
Providing knowledge and skills to children so they can make informed
decisions about the environment
Our exhibit will feature hands-on learning activities that will
engage and inspire students to learn about the natural world.
www.evols.org
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K12 Online Public School: K12 is America’s largest provider
of online education for grades K-12. Kindergarten through 12th grade
students in most states can enroll in online public schools or
“virtual schools” that partner with K12, and the number of students
is growing rapidly every year. In fact, with over one million
courses delivered to date, K12 is the leader-by a wide margin-in
providing learning programs to public schools in the U.S. These
schools are free to parents and offer K12’s acclaimed K-8 program
and high school program providing an individualized educational
experience like no other. Our booth will display our online
curriculum showcase, information/brochures, recycleable totes to
give away to families, cosmic K12 lesson activity.
www.k12.com
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UCCE/Elkus ranch is an environmental education center
providing unique hands-on learning experiences for SF bay area
youth. Posters with hand out materials on our programs.
http://cesanmateo.ucanr.edu
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Empowering World Change: Spreading the message of
sustainability and empowering people (especially kids) for a global
change. . Our mission is to promote environmental awareness and
sustainability through education, collaboration and outreach that
inspires children, parents and communities to be involved, share the
knowledge, and take small, achievable steps that collectively make a
significant contribution toward positive environmental change.
www.empoweringworldchange.com
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City of Mountain View Water Conservation Program educates
citizens about water resources and motivates water customers to use
water wisely. The Water Conservation Program provides materials and
programs on Mountain View’s water sources, individuals’ water use,
and ways to use water efficiently. The City also partners with
regional water agencies to provide water conservation rebates and
classes to the community.
www.conservewater.mountainview.gov
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The Factory Farming Awareness Coalition is dedicated to
empowering people to save the environment, animals, and our own
health through our daily food choices. FFAC offers a comprehensive
and holistic presentation to local schools as a free resource.
www.ffacoalition.org
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Visual Cue Thermal Imaging |
Visual Cue Thermal Imaging: Seeing is believing when it
comes to locating your home's energy leaks, and infrared shows you
in amazing detail. Visual Cue's exhibit has been wildly popular with
students in third- and fourth-grade classrooms at Juana Briones
School in Palo Alto. The exhibit includes an infrared thermal imager
on a tripod, and a 21" monitor running a PowerPoint loop. The loop
shows picture-in-picture infrared images of home energy leaks, and
explains why we're interested in stopping them. The informational
slides are interspersed with photos of orangutans in cute poses,
making funny faces. I use the imager to show children how strange
things around them look when viewed in the infrared spectrum, and
answer their questions.
http://infraredmagic.com
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Senergy Efficiency: We are an energy consulting firm
located in the South Bay. We perform home energy assessments and
provide home owners with a detailed report on how they can make
there homes more energy efficient. We also perform all the upgrades
needed to make the home more energy efficient. We are also a
participating contractor in the Energy Upgrade California program
that is run by PG&E.
www.senergyefficiency.com
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San Martin 4H is a Federally Funded youth development and
educational organization. Our exhibit is a Science Activity
targeting Climate Change.
Website of San Martin 4H Club |
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DezignKidz provides innovative design programs for kids
ages 7-14 in fashion & accessory design, interior design, textile
design, sewing and other textile arts. Students express themselves
through the medium of fabric, while gaining valuable practical and
problem-solving skills. DezignKidz programs encourage true “design
thinking” as students learn how to take a project from a sketch to a
completed product. An emphasis is placed on creative use of
materials, including recycling and repurposing whenever possible.
www.dezignkidz.com
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FabMo annually rescues over 50 tons of discontinued
interior design materials and makes them available for creative
reuse by all interested people. We encourage them to up-cycle and
repurpose these FabMo items into new, beautiful and useful
creations. We celebrate our crafters and their creations with an
annual FabMo Textile Art Boutique at Quadrus Conference Center in
Menlo Park (Oct. 27). We also offer workshops open to the public.
Our booth will provide information about what FabMo does and why we
do it. We will show some unique examples of things people have made
from FabMo treasures. We will offer a hands-on Make and Take project
for all Conference guests to enjoy.
www.fabmo.org
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Friends of Stevens Creek Trail: Our mission is to promote
community pride and involvement in the completion, enhancement, and
enjoyment of the Stevens Creek Trail and Wildlife Corridor.
Exhibit: Maps and interactive exhibit
about the creek and the trail. Everyone who successfully cleans up
our virtual creek wins a bike bell for their bike.
www.stevenscreektrail.org
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Neighborhood Christian Center’s creative emergent
curriculum is designed to develop the whole child's, mind, body and
soul. Children are surrounded by a nurturing environment and we
plant the seeds for a lifetime of growth. We offer a committed green
& natural education program that role models sustainable living. It
is this generation that will enjoy the beauty of this earth because
of their green choices and habits they are developing today. This
will allow them to fully enjoy our earth for tomorrow.
www.myncc.net
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Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: Our purpose is
to purchase, permanently protect, and restore lands forming a
regional open space greenbelt, preserve unspoiled wilderness,
wildlife habitat, watershed, viewshed, and fragile ecosystems, and
provide opportunities for low-intensity recreation and environmental
education.
www.openspace.org
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Art for Birds - Cruelty Free
Feather Jewelry
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Art For The Birds-Cruelty Free Feather: To educate women of
all ages about the unnecessary killing of birds just for their
feathers to make jewelry, fashion accessories, hair decorations and
feathers which are sold in craft store. I will be bringing a live
pigeon.
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