The Final Results

On Thursday we found out that we did not win the Lexus Environmental Challenge. :-( It was a real upsetter because we had worked so hard on it and so long on our project that just to see it end like that really sucked. But thanks to everyone who went to our website, watched our You Tube video, participated in No Car Day, and made an effort to try to reduce/end air pollution. Thankyou thankyou! Words cannot describe how greatful we are to everyone who helped. We cannot also thank our science teacher enough for what she did to help our team get as far as we did! Thankyou again everyone rememember to "Go Green and keep it green" in your life!

Finishing touches!

Today we did the finishing touches on our PowerPoint presentation! We were at the school working hard until 5:00-6:00! Luckily we finished it and are ready to send it in. Our great teacher helped us edit it and helped us get different things that we wanted on! Thank you! I think that it turned out great! Our teacher took it home and is going to e-mail it to the judges. They will judge all the presentations in 2 days and tell us if we won or not next week! It's exciting! Thank you all for all of your support! We couldn't have done it without you!

New Law!

On Saturday we talked to the Utah Division of Air Quality to confirm what we were going to do. We decided on spreading awareness about air pollution and to help pass a new law in Utah about green house gases! We are so excited to be able to participate in passing a law that could one day change the world! Please also help support this and keep it green! When you are going somewhere think of other ways of transportation besides cars. That was what No Car Day was a lot about. Not only was it about reducing the amount of air pollution that day but getting people to think about other types of transportation besides cars so that they could use those different types of transportation not just on No Car Day but everyday!

They Got Back With Us!

The Utah Division of Air Quality got back with us today! They are so helpful! They told us that they would love to help in anyway they possibly could to help get the word out about air pollution and would give us all the information we need! They also said that they would try to work around our deadline for the contest! We are so excited to have them on board! Stay posted to find out what we do!

Talking to the Utah State Department of Air Quality

Just barely we contacted the Utah State Department of Air Quality to see if there was any way they could help us spread the word about air pollution! We also just sent out a press release to the Holladay Journal to see if they could do a article about us! Keep posted to see if this happens! If you have any contacts who you think can help us spread the word please contact us! ASAP!

It's Here!

As most of you know today was No Car Day! We are so happy with the outcomes of this event! Thankyou to all of those who supported us and helped us get to where we are! Now all we can do is hope for the best! We reduced the amount of cars that came to the schools by nearly half! Thankyou so much to everyone! Thanks for going green! Look on Channel 1 tomorow or the day after and they should be doing a segment on us! Thanks again!

NCD on March 17th!

As you know, No Car Day is on March 17th!!!  That's this Monday!  Don't drive your car!  Carpool, bike, walk, etc!  We've had many people tell us that they are going to walk to certain activities, carpool to work, walk to school, and more!   Thank you so much for all of your support!   "Go Green On St. Patrick's Day!"

It's Almost Here!

We are so excited No Car Day is almost here! We have gotten so much support through out this whole thing and thank you so much! Please also support No Car Day by not driving your car! On Wednesday this week we talked with the best PowerPoint person in the world! (No it wasn't Bill Gates!) We learned so much about Powerpoint and how we should do our Powerpoint when we tun in our final one for the Lexus Environmental Challenge! We also found out that we have 4 schools supporting No Car Day! We are so excited!

You Tube

Go to our YouTube video!  Show it to all of your friends and family too!  Thank you to everyone who has gone!

Channel One

Our wonderful science teacher wrote letters and e-mails to many people for us to talk to!  One of these people happened to be Channel One.  Channel One is a news update about 10 or so minutes that about 10,000 schools watch every morning, including our school.  Our teacher told them about our project and they LOVED the "Go Green on St. Patrick's Day!" slogan!  They want us to send them a news report about our schools different projects that we're doing and especially highlighting ours!  We are going to be working on that tomorrow and on Friday!  Exciting!

Another School

Today we were able to get one more school participating!  They are willing to tell their students and hang up flyers in their classrooms!  If we are able to they said that they will send home flyers in the students backpacks too.  This is great!  We have 3 additional schools participating!

More Publicity!

Today we had one of our group members go to another elementary school today!  They agreed to participate in our No Car Day.  They were able to hang up flyers around the school and the principal has agreed to announce on their morning announcements about our project and about No Car Day!  We also hung up flyers throughout our school and went on the morning announcements this morning to tell our school about No Car Day!

Today we also faxed out some press releases and e-mailed some.  Tomorrow we hope to be able to call some news and radio stations and tell them about what we're doing and see if we can be interviewed!

This is great!  We've been publicizing a lot!  Thank you for all your support!  "Go Green on St. Patrick's Day!"

Other Schools

Today we are talking to 3 other elementeries schools about supporting No Car Day. So far 1 of the schools has eagerly agreed to join us! They will be handing flyers out to all the kids about saying not to drive on March 17 and facts about air pollution!

Our Project

Our group entered the Lexus Environmental Challenge.  We wanted to help reduce the amount of air pollution given off by cars in our school.  We decided to have an NCD (No Car Day) within our school.  We encouraged students and faculty to carpool, take the bus, walk, bike, etc. to school on our No Car Day.  We were pretty successful and were able to reduce the amount of cars by 50%!  We were chosen to go on in the contest and compete against 15 other teams from all over the country.  Now we are going to do the same thing, but bigger.  We want your help to help us spread awareness about air pollution and how bad it is!  On March 17th we want everyone throughout the whole state of Utah (or even bigger if possible!) to "Go Green on St. Patrick's Day!"  Help us out by not driving your car to work or school on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th.  Instead of driving you can carpool with someone else, take the bus/tracks, you can bike, walk, etc!  You'll be glad that you did!  Every year each car gives off an average of about 7 times the weight of a small car, or 13,000 pounds, of air pollution!  That's a TON and that is not good for us or our environment!  So don't drive your car and remember, "Go Green on St. Patrick's Day!"

To learn more, check out our You Tube Video!

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