As you may know, Weston’s Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is putting on a Science Night for kids in grades K-5 from 6-8pm on March 23rd at Woodland School. It will be a well-structured program of over a dozen different science activities, run by parents and high school students, which the kids will rotate through over the course of the evening. I talked to the organizing committee about the possibility of the Weston Climate Group doing an activity and they loved the idea! While I am happy to help put this together, I am already doing one of the stations so I cannot take the lead. Therefore, we are looking for people to do the following:
1. Prepare an activity consistent with the Weston Climate Group’s mission – For example, Jane had the idea of having a map of Weston and some string so that kids can see how far their trip to school is each day and then do the math to calculate the carbon footprint of various transportation options, based on some generic conversion rates we’d give them for things like school buses, minivans, hybrid cars, standard cars, etc. Another idea was to do a side-by-side comparison of things like light bulbs (regular vs. CFL). The PTO group is very open to ideas, preferring ones where the kids not only learn something, but also actually do something. The cost of materials can be covered by the PTO (within reason, of course). There is a meeting on Tuesday (March 13) at 3:00 at the high school to review the activities, so that will be a great opportunity to get feedback on ideas. I will be attending and can represent the team if others aren’t available.
2. Prepare information displays & handouts – There will be room to display information at the station (table) and many activities will have take-away sheets with further information and activities. These don’t need to be particularly fancy. Copying can be done at Case House with some advance notice and large-scale (e.g., poster-sized) printing can be done at the Weston Community Center. I can put you in touch with the right people in both cases.
3. Set-up, man, and break-down the station – The event is scheduled to run from 6-8 p.m. on the 23rd, with set-up beginning as early as about 4:30 (if needed). People can take turns running the activity, or have more than one person there at a time, so the more the merrier.
Despite the length of this description, it won’t be a great deal of work to put this together and the payoff, in terms of both public education and publicity for the Weston Climate Group, will be tremendous. If you are interested in helping in any way, even if it’s just to take a shift at the table or make some copies, please contact Rudy Ruggles at info@westonclimategroup.org or by phone at 617-513-1869.
Thank you!
Rudy
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