Thursday, October 20, 2011
Hello students. Some of our students here at SCCS are off to a conference for Global Issues Network. The idea is getting people and students together to try to solve 20 global issues in 20 years based off of this book High Noon. They will be meeting in Lima, Peru with schools from all over Latin America. They will be commenting on this blog about the experiences that they are having. Hope to hear some great news and stories. Here is a link about more info from the conference.GIN Confernece
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The first conference day, the second presentation cought my attention and has created a big impact in me.The keynote speaker Manuel M. taked to us about plastic pollution. It sounds important but it it more than that. The plastic recycled doesn't go back to it's virgen state, like glass or metal would. Instead it ends in tiny plastic pieces that are mistaked by sand and are in every 9 of 10 beaches.
ReplyDeleteThe sea animals end up eating this plastics and a lot die. Anyways the food chain ends up with us. This means that humans have plastic in their blood, and now babies are born like that.
The solution is not to recycle because it doesn't mean that the loop is formed. The new solution given was to REFUSE. To refuse the use of straws, spoons, plates, and all the plastic manufactures that are unnecessary. Carry around a metal straw and metal silverware.This with make a BIG impact and it is a problem that has to be worked on TODAY!
In the GIN conference you can watch the presentation. I highly recomend it!
Thanks Karolina! Girls, we want updates!!!
ReplyDeleteThe GIN conference consisted of many hours of work but we could learn how to create habits for our improvement and also to network with people of all over South America.
ReplyDeleteThe conference included workshops, student presentations, important speeches, time to know students, and we learned alot of Peruvian culture too.
Sunday was the last day of the conference and the last speech showed me that you can really make a difference. A college student was called to make a presentation to us and he showed how you can make a change with something as simple as a sport. He works to promote soccer in Africa to fight aids. His name was Rob Burroughs and he began with a small idea of his boss and now has made a great impact on people in africa since soccer is a great incentive to promote awarenes.
I thought his presentation was very good and clear and left us the message of the conference as a whole.
We can make a change when we want to if we chose to.
"Building new futures by breaking old habits." - GIN Conference Oct. 21-23 2011 Lima, Peru
ReplyDeleteThe second day of the Conference which was Saturday, we traveled to the FDR School that was hosting this international conference. We went directly to the auditorium and we watched some of the videos presented by each school concerning their projects. Each school chose one project to work with and to try to change within their community. My school chose Biodiversity/ Education and we focused on educating people on the zoo and on the biodiverse richness Bolivia has.
The first Keynote Speaker of the day was John Liu who talked about the Carbon Project. He traveled all around the world and had restoration projects where vast pieces of uninhabited land was reformed into productive and biodiverse areas. His presentations show the power and resilence of nature and seek to understand what must be done to ensure natural regulation of climate, the hydrological cycle, soil fertility, and biodiversity.
After that we had two student workshops. I got to see the school from Peru present on earthquakes and on natural disasters and the school from Quito, Ecuador present on recycling plastic and bottles in their school.
After lunch we had two keynote speakers. One was Joel Simonetti who presented on fish depletion and on how to sonserve the biodiversity in the waters and oceans by not eating great quantities of sea food that alter the biological chain in the oceans. The other presenter was Cathryn Berger who presented on the teen guide to saving our oceans, lakes, rivers and wetlands.
After that we went to meet with our global village groups where we met students from different countries and finally had our last presentation where three young workers told us about their projects, Rob Burroughs- a university student who is involved on playing soccer to raise money to donate, Paloma Sarria- a woman that is working with ecological projects and Shalah Mohammed who was a student there in FDR school that had come up with the idea of the faucets to refill water bottles.
Finally they provided us a Mindful meal where the products used were all natural and hadn't been bought with unnecessary plastic bags and plastic wraps. We finished and had entertainment where the students from the school had a talent show.
On our first day in Peru, we met new people at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School in Lima, Peru. We registered in the morning, followed by a warm welcome by staff and students of the school. The elementary students sang a song dedicated to the planet and then the student leaders of the school and the directors of GIN introduced themselves to the whole student body, which was composed by students from Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Washington D.C., and Bolivia.
ReplyDeleteThe three-day schedule started with keynote speakers who gave motivational speeches of why to save the planet and create awareness among the students. The first keynote speaker was Joaquin Leghia, who explained how he worked to improve biodiversity by motivating children all around the world to plant small gardens with different species of plants and flowers in their garden. He invented Anya, a doll who was the representation of a girl who “talked” to children so that they act positively towards the environment. Another keynote speaker was Manuel Maqueda, who talked about the importance of recycling and showed shocking pictures of the albatross birds which died because they ate the trash people left around them. In lunch we had traditional food, “Papas a la Huancaina”.
Our presentation was about improving biodiversity and education in the Santa Cruz Zoo. It lasted about 45 minutes and we had an audience of about twenty people from diverse countries. We also discussed the issue about the TIPNIS and showed the video which we had previously seen in an Economics homework. The presentation was clear and interesting.
For what remained of the day, we listened to other keynote speakers and were formed into Global Village Groups. These groups were formed by one student from each school. At the end, we learned about many of Peru´s traditional dances because the school brought different groups from Peru to perform in a show.