For participating in competition please register on our site: http://spareworld.org/rus/user/register
The competition is being held within the framework of the international educational program SPARE (school program for the use of resources and energy) and the world decade of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development with the support of the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature and INFORSE-Europe (International Network for Sustainable Energy). The 2011/2012 competition is being held under the following slogan:
Save climate — start from your home with simple energy solutions!
We invite to participate in the competition those school children and teachers who are interested in and already have achievements in practical activities in the sphere of climate change, implementing energy savings, use of renewable sources of energy for local needs, raising the energy efficiency of school buildings, and in developing the education of schoolchildren and public outreach about questions of energy efficiency and energy savings. The competition will be held in two stages: national and international (the national competition preceding the regional stages). For the international competition no more than 5 submissions (and no more than two submissions in each of the nomination groups) will be accepted.
NOMINATION GROUPS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN:
Nomination Group 1. Practical work.
— Practical experience of energy savings at school and home. Describe which methods you used for achieving energy savings at home and school, and why you chose these methods and what results you achieved.
— Practical implementation of renewable sources of energy (choose one or two).
Describe how you constructed the model or use of solar, wind, hydro, or biomass energy. Describe how you worked and what results you received.
Nomination Group 2. Theoretical work (project)
— Projects of energy saving at the locality. Describe a possible project for introducing energy savings in your school, at home, in your locality (the project should concern actual existing sites), proposed methods and approaches for more effective and economical use of energy. Justify, how the project can be achieved, and what improvements the project will bring the locality.
— Projects of energy saving from renewable sources of energy. Describe and justify one example of how to use solar, wind, hydro or biomass energy for the specific goals of energy saving in your locality. Describe why you chose this source of energy specifically and the procedure for how this project can be realized in practice and what result the project will give.
For submissions of categories 1 and 2, it is essential to describe the relationship between your work and climate change, and how your submission helps to lower greenhouse gas emissions
Nomination Group 3. Public education/outreach of energy savings:
An informational result, created by school children, that convinces parents, friends, teachers, and resident of your locality of the necessity to lower greenhouse gases, and gives recommendations by which practical actions this can be achieved at school, home, and at the scale of your locality (microrayon of your city, rayon, village). The result of the competition can be conducted in the form of leaflet, newspaper, poster, video, multimedia, or PowerPoint presentation.
NOMINATION GROUP 4 — FOR TEACHERS:
Practical lesson «Save Climate with Simple Energy Solutions»
Short description of the lesson or facultative for
Lessons-experiments, showing technical possibility and advantages of producing energy from renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy saving are very welcome.
Materials for exercises within practical lessons/experiments, posters, PowerPoint presentations, debate and role-playing scenarios, will be accepted. The materials should be designed for
RULES FOR SUBMITTING TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Competition submissions must be made in electronic form in English or Russian language. Text will be accepted in the format of Microsoft Word, with the use of standard font size of 12, 6 pages with enclosed illustrations and tables that are included in the text. The overall size of the file (without use of a compressed format) should be no more than 300 KB.
For the Nomination Group 3 presentations in format Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF documents should not be larger than 1 MB. Videos in the format WMV, DIVX and MPEG-1, cartoons in format Micromedia Flash (SWF) and computer games will be accepted on the condition that the size of their file (in compressed format) does not exceed 1 mb. Videos means clip 1-2 minutes. You can download your video at www.youtube.com and send us a link.
The set of materials should include a filled out registration form on the first page. It is highly recommended to use the compression formats RAR or ZIP.
Materials that do not meet these conditions will not be reviewed.
COMPETITION TIMELINE
The announcement of the national stages of the competition is in September. The period for sending submissions for the national competition is determined by the national coordinator. (See the list of contact information of the national SPARE coordinators.) If a country has no national coordinator, the submission can be sent to the international coordinator (spare-coordination@spareworld.org, spare-rus@yandex.ru).
The deadline for sending submissions to the international competition is no later than 15 March 2012.
Competition projects of previous years were very simple!
You can do the same!
You can do better!
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS
In scoring the competition submissions, the current relevance of the chosen topic, the justification of the proposed methods for implementing the project, a practical result, the argumentation of results and recommendations, and the quality of the presentation of the project will be taken into account. In the nomination group 3 the originality of the implementation and artistic representation is also considered. In evaluating the project, the level of difficulty and independence of the implementation of the project as it relates to the age of the authors will be taken into account.
In evaluating the teachers’ submissions, the following will be taken into account: the vision of the projects in stimulating motivation for practical activities among children and adults in order to achieve a practical result; the use of interactive methods that help to attract children to discussion, creativity, practical activity, received or expected energy savings or use of renewable energy as a result of the implementation of the proposed pedagogical approach; the possibility of replicating the proposed pedagogical methods.
COMPETITION PROCEDURE
International SPARE coordinators, representatives of international organizations, experts working in the sphere of energy and education, and national SPARE coordinators will be members of the International Jury. The final results of the international competition will be announced at annual international SPARE meeting spring-2012.
Winners of the international competition will be awarded with certificates and prizes.
