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LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability

2015

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Education Energy, Stephine Deeren, Stephanie Snook, Dustin Vandervest Jan 2015

Education Energy, Stephine Deeren, Stephanie Snook, Dustin Vandervest

LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability

Team Education Energy formed at Grand Valley State University’s Traverse City campus in the winter of 2015 through a course called “Wicked Problems in Sustainability” (LIB 322). For their project Team Education Energy reached out to Traverse City West Middle School with the idea to create an energy fair. The mission of the project was to help promote ideas of environmental stewardship and to engage and utilize student’s creativity in contributing to the solution of energy efficiency and energy use. The middle school students formed teams and used these concepts to determine what energy efficiency improvements could be made within …