Last month, as a closing activity for the Energy Champion competition that my school has been in for the last couple of months, the Energy Warriors committee at my school decided to do a video showing us 'protesting' the school to be more energy efficient and sustainable, in which the video will be featured at the closing ceremony of the competition. Firstly, for those of you who has no idea what Energy Champion is, it is a nation-wide energy-saving competition that my school was invited to compete since February 2012 and I was appointed to be the leader/head of the committee at my school. The competition sees how each school has been making efforts in being more sustainable in addition to encouraging students to be creative in doing so, by creating energy-saving competitions in which my school has won 4 of the monthly competitions.
Over the past few months, the Energy Warriors group that I led has brought the school into a more sustainable environment by achieving our 'green' goals that we are hoping to continue even if the competition has ended. Through the competition, we had accomplished several goals such as installation of automatic door-closing tools in each room to avoid any AC air coming out of the room, implementation of 23-degree AC policy, establishment of energy watcher regulators in which students take turns in patrolling around the school to check classes if they follow the energy-efficient regulations, various campaigns about the cause, recycling bins and several others more.
To end the program, the video is made as a form of campaign that we hope will reach more audience outside of the school (as we will post it in social medias) and encourage them to be more energy-efficient. In the video, I acted as a reporter interviewing staffs and students of my school about the 'protest' aimed for the school to be more sustainable and energy-efficient. The reason we chose it to be like an infomercial is so that people would get interested in the cause and actually understand the message and hopefully join us to spread the word in addition to implementing sustainability in their daily lives.
As one of my CAS projects, I am really glad that the competition ends with unexpected number of goals achieved in less than a year. This activity I believe benefits not just myself from providing a service for the school and the community by using my creativity and various social skills, but also benefit the community in general as it gets more sustainable and more knowledgeable about energy-saving hence undoubtedly it will not long before the community starts their own move.
Below are the pictures from the shooting of the infomercial. Enjoy!
P.S. The competition ended October 6th, 2012 and Global Jaya International School won Overall Best School Performance and Best Home Energy-Saving categories!
