Summary
Closing Date:
End of summer term or July 31st 2009
Competition: To Wipe Out Waste
Age groups: 10-12yrs, 13-16yrs,
17-18yrs
Awards Date: 3rd
Nov 2009 - London
Contact: jonathan.b@footprintfriends.com
website: www.footprintfriends.com/wow
WHAT:
We are inviting school-age students from year 6 and above
(10+) to team up and present ONE BIG WOW (Wipe Out Waste) IDEA for their school to Footprint Friends, for an opportunity to be selected for the WOW awards finals at the
Frontline Club in London on November 3rd.
WOW
STUDENTS BRIEF
Their brief is to: group up into teams of up to 4; assess
the potential impact of waste wiped out via the adoption of their ONE BIG WOW
IDEA; complete the WOW questionnaire; and submit it to footprint friends by the
end of the summer term. (*We'll accept ideas up until July 31st or
later if you twist our arm, and give us a good reason!).
Waste* in this context would be in the broadest sense; it
could be referenced by energy, water, food, materials, carbon, time and money
and so on. They will also need to speculate how much waste would be saved if
their idea was adopted nationally.
*Our definition of waste is anything that is being used carelessly,
being wasted, thrown away unnecessarily, misused, is surplus to requirement and
so on. - The WOW aim is to encourage schools to get closer and closer to being
zero waste. Put simply, zero waste extends current approaches to recycling by
introducing the concept of circular systems in which as much waste as possible
is reused, similar to the way that resources are reused in nature.
AWARD
CATEGORIES IN AGES:
i) 10-12 / ii) 13-16 / iii) 17-18 (6th form
students)
DEADLINE FOR
SUBMISSION OF WOW QUESTIONNAIRES:
Friday July
31st
THE
WOW FACTOR:
During the summer holidays, the team at footprint friends
will log, record and analyse all the entrants.
We'll be looking for the top three BIG WOW ideas from each
age group + one other, that generate the most savings, are the most practical
to apply, and the most likely to succeed and get implemented by the DCSF (The
Department for Children, Schools & Families) in schools nationwide.
All entrants will receive an official footprint friends WOW
certificate with the number of their WOW idea, and all WOW ideas will be
included in the on-line virtual 2009 big WOW ideas book.
The ten BIG WOW teams will be invited to London to present
their ideas to the Green Dragon's Den in November.
AWARD CEREMONY
WHEN:
Tuesday,
November 3rd, 2009
WHERE: THE FRONTLINE
CLUB, PADDINGTON
www.frontlineclub.com/
WOW
AWARDS GREEN DRAGONS PANEL of JUDGES:
• DR. LIZ GOODWIN, CEO WRAP (Waste & Resources Action
Programme)
www.wrap.org.uk
• IAN FIELDER, CEO BIFM (British Institute of Facilities
Management)
www.bifm.org.uk
• PROFESSOR BILL MCGUIRE, Footprint Friends Science Advisor Climate Change Scientist & Author. www.billmcguire.co.uk
• RT. HON. JOAN RUDDOCK (MP) - (Department of Energy & Climate Change)
www.joanruddock.org
• CASPER TER KUILE, Co-Director, UK Youth Climate Coalition
www.ukycc.org
• KEVAN ROBERTS, South Coast Business Entrepreneur www.karcontractors.com
From September to October, the footprint friends team will
arrange school site visits for each of the ten big WOW idea teams. During the
visit we will assist in polishing the big WOW pitches, provide presentation
coaching and general media training, and prepare each team for pitching to the
green dragons at the award ceremony.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on-line giving all
schools who've participated an opportunity to be ‘virtually' in the dragons
den. Each team will be given 5 minutes to pitch their idea to the green dragons
- every member of the team presenting is encouraged to have a role.
The idea(s) with the biggest WOW factor for our panel of
judges, will be scoped for national implementation in all UK schools. We're
already in touch with the DCSF as they are looking for innovation and action
within the school environment under their sustainable development mandate.
The 2009 WOW idea team and their teacher(s) will be asked to
be a part of taking their WOW idea into production nationwide. The school would
have a complimentary powerPerfector* unit installed, enabling the school to substantially
reduce their energy usage.
*You can
find out more on how this unique invention is saving money, energy and cutting
carbon emissions at www.powerperfector.com.