PassiveSolarSunday Team- Evans Middle School

Our Team:
The #PassiveSolarSunday Team
Team Members:
Joseline, Albin, Tyler, Ryan,
Kenna, Dawson and Joshua (7person team)
Teacher Advisor :
Kimberly Church
School name:
Leonard Evans Jr. Middle
School
School city/state:
McKinney, Texas
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Our Issue?- Global Campaign To Reduce Energy
Waste & Ozone Depletion
According to TXU and Green Mountain Energy, Sunday is the highest energy
use day of the week, when everyone is home, as a family, enjoying the
game, doing chores, relaxing.
Here is a reminder of how our team began creating impact on energy waste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28fYA5D6dpY
Please continue to see what we’ve done since
winning the Air & Climate Challenge
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#PassiveSolarSunday an Official Day in McKinney
Mayor Drafts A Resolution
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#PassiveSolarSunday & Legislation
Political Support From
#Congressman Sam Johnson
Advice from #Senator Ken Paxton
Working on the Legislative Process
with #Representative Scott Sanford
The Team is working with
Representative Sanford to include
#PassiveSolarSunday in the next
legislative session, specifically
addressing the Capitol building not
needing to be lit 24/7.
#SavingEnergyInTheCapitol
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Austin College Adopts #PassiveSolarSunday &
Students Get Expert Advice
The Team collaborated with Dr. Smucker and Katie Masucci on their cutting edge
research in sustainability and made fans of #PassiveSolarSunday.
“We will definitely adopt Passive Solar Sunday to our sustainability portfolio. It’s simple,
but elegant, and efficient; it’s the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency. We love
#PassiveSolarSunday!”
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Social Media Superstars- Twitter & Facebook
Using Social Media Powers To Create Awareness
Our Twitter Reached 5,173,098 People via People Who RT and
Favorited Our Comments/Pics/Videos, with over 2,000 tweets@PassiveSolarSun
We reached 11,565 “clicks” through our paid Facebook campaign and
236 “likes.” – Passive Solar Sunday
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Notable Twitter Supporters of #PassiveSolarSunday
Read 5,173,098 Through Re-Tweets & Favorites
Organizations: 5,173,098
Do Something Canada (Canada) 436
DoSomething.org (New York City, NY) 675,395
Do Something UK (UK) 13,868
Britannia Comms (London, Edinburg, Geneva, Beijing,
Washington) 59,237
Ad Council (USA) 13,397
Planetario de Pamplona (Spain) 3,350
VolunTEEN Nation (St. Louis, MO) 15,325
We Are The Change 52---- 781,060
Universities and other schools:
University of Law (UK) 18,365
University of Lagos (Lagos, Nigeria) 1,529
Sam Houston State (Huntsville, TX) 10,024
Austin College (Sherman, TX) 1,645
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) 86,104 117,647
Celebrities:
Wynonna Judd (Nashville, TN) 60,499
Cody Linley (LA, CA) 172,153
David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place) 2,677,663
Oklahoma City Thunder (OKC, OK) 667,979
Flor Schoonhoven, Online Personality (Oslo, Norway)
26,819
Marti King Young, Director/Producer (TN) 725 -3,605,838
News Outlets:
NBC DFW Channel 5 News 55,615
WFAA Channel 8 News anchors- Gloria Campos
9,658, Ron Corning 12,013, Teresa Woodard 2,092
and Shelly Slater 11,728
FOX4 News- Jenny Anchondo 9,887 and Clarice
Tinsley 6,819
CBS11- Jeff Jamison 5,616
#MLB Nation staff writer David W. Cash 5,753
Newsgram; St. Louis City Employee News 978 -- 110,272
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Notable Twitter Support Cont’d.
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Energy Front:
Pavegen Systems (London, England) 3,125
Energy Star Buildings (Washington, D.C.) 10,428
Siemen’s Energy (Worldwide) 73,019
The Daily Energy Report (San Francisco, CA) 20,304
Global Green USA (Santa Monica, CA) 29,565
EcoSolary (Irvine, CA) 1,703
The Solar Company (Bay Area, CA) 11,944
EcoEvaluator.com (CA) 34,585
Ecolibrium Solar (Athens, OH) 990
•Sun Power Plug (Big Sky Country, MT) 3,041
•Green Mountain Energy (Austin, TX) 1,878
•Ganaderia, Mexico (Mexico) 214,691
•EcoTech Institute (Aurora/Denver, CO) 237
•Reusable Revolution (Las Vegas, NV) 69
•ReWorks (NY) 756
•Boston Eco (Boston, MA) 2,806
•New Buildings Inst. (Vancouver, WA) 1,007
•Mint Energy (Burlington, MA) 765
•Patriot Energy Group (Massachusetts)
1,145 412,058
Supporters and Fans of #PassiveSolarSunday in
14 states & 16 countries!
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Prize Planning: If we win, we would like to build a research
greenhouse, (we already have the plans), where students
can work in science, composting or hydroponics