Start making an impact on your future (and everyone else’s) by using environmental science and policy to take on major issues like climate change.
Tainted drinking water, beaches closed due to contaminants, endangered honeybees, weather extremes—today’s environmental challenges can seem overwhelming. But in this workshop, we'll work to find solutions that can help our planet by investigating everything from fundamental chemistry to environmental policy.
Can we protect natural resources while still making sure people have what they need to live? Can we really tackle climate change in the face of all the money and politics involved? How can scientists, politicians, and business leaders cooperate on environmental rules? Team up with your friends in case studies and simulations to tackle challenges from international conflicts over scarce resources, to declining biodiversity, to the immediate and long-term threats posed by climate change. Design experiments, develop policy solutions, even devise proposals to take back to your own communities to help make a positive impact on your world.
What you'll do
Start Some Chemistry
Collect and test water samples for contaminants, and develop standards for drinking water and to protect the biodiversity of water bodies.
Make Change
Climate change sits right in the middle of a complex political, scientific, and economic crossroads—but we’ll navigate it by developing our own policies and strategies to help society adapt.
Shrink Your Footprints
Measure your own personal carbon footprint, and use sustainable engineering to find ways to help reduce the carbon footprint of everyday activities.
Rotten Recycling
Divert food and plant waste into composters—a great way to reduce pollution and generate free, nutrient-rich soil for growing all kinds of things.
