Achievement

MCSI worked closely with the Manchester Academic Charter School, http://www.macsk8.org/ on sustainability and engineering based educational programs. In 2011, to provide a general understanding of sustainability principles, MCSI and IGERT affiliated faculty and students provided all 6th, 7th and 8th grade students a series of lectures on sustainability, green buildings, energy and water. The students participated in the first Sustainable Schools competition with the goal to identify a concept that would make their school ‘greener’ while increasing school-wide awareness of sustainability. With guidance and mentorship from MACS science teacher, and Dr. Sharma, students were challenged to work individually or in teams to develop a proposal outlining how they would make their school more sustainable. Projects were reviewed by both MACS and MCSI representatives and judged on the quality and creativity of the proposal, the long term impact on the school and the feasibility of implementation.