**Update** Jan, 2008

**Update** Dec, 17, 2007

Congratulations to everyone who participated in Northview's Eco Challenge! You made Northview proud and took an important role in raising awareness about energy conservation in our school community. 

The judging process was extremely difficult, but the judges have made their decisions and the winners are as follows: 

Junior Level Poster Design:    Yuna Yoon 

Senior Level Poster Design:   Rittee Prak

T-Shirt Design:   Alexandra Wehr

Junior Level Action Plan:    Tapan Shah 

*The deadline for the Senior Level Action Plan has been extended until Wednesday December 19th 2007. All submissions must be received in room 144 by noon on the 19th. There should also be a digital copy on the Zazengo website under the Real Solutions for an Inconvenient Truth Project. If you require assistance come to room 144 during lunch.

**Mandatory Application form** 

Open link, and click on "Download This Media". Print form, and hand in along with a hard copy of your project to Room 144, before noon on Wednesday Dec. 12th.

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**Inconvenient Truth Guide - Click to open!!**

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**Update** Nov. 15, 2007

Northview's Eco Challenge

Contest # 1

Make an Action Plan

The goal of Real Solutions for An Inconvenient Truth project is to have students develop ideas on how to save energy within the school.  The project is hosted on staging.zazengo.com a website dedicated to people who make a difference in our society. 

For students in grades 9 – 10:

Build an action plan to reduce Northview Heights’ environmental footprint.

• 2 pages or more is required

For students in grade 11 – 12:

Build an action plan to reduce Northview Heights’ environmental footprint.

• 4 pages or more is required

Contest # 2      Inspire -> Awareness -> Action

Design a poster to promote energy conservation. It can contain information on facts or figures on energy use. The poster will give people ideas on how to save energy, whether you focus on one topic (example: light bulbs) or energy saving as a whole. The poster will be judged on its effectiveness and design. 

OR 

Take a picture of an event that you organized to help conserve energy (for example: tree planting, home audit- changing to energy efficient bubs, etc.). Incorporate that picture into a poster that communicates ideas about how to conserve energy.

Requirements 

Minimum paper size is 8.5 x 11”.  If digital the file needs to be 300 ppi and saved as a jpeg. All content must be appropriate for a high school audience. The overall impression should be “eye catching”.

The artwork will be judged in 2 categories for junior (grades 9 and 10) and senior (grades 11 and 12) categories

Contest #3 - 

T-Shirt Design  

Design a T-shirt to promote energy conservation.

Requirements

The design needs to be bold and stand out.

A slogan promoting energy conservation must be a part of the design.

The design will be judged on creativity and impact.

There are no age categories for this contest.

The design must be appropriate for a high school audience.

How to enter the challenge:

1. Register on Zazengo (see FAQS for help).
2. Join the “Real Solutions for an Inconvenient Truth” project , and Northview Organization.
3. Create a new project and upload all the contest information under discussion, stories, etc. (see guide on how to make a new project).
4. Link your project to the "Northview Heights Secondary School" organization, by going to "Edit" -> "Associated Organizations" -> "Available Organizations", and select Northview. Click Update Project.

Deadline:

All submissions must be uploaded by Wednesday, December 12, 2007 for judging.  Also submit a hard copy of your work to room 144 by this date along with the entry form.

Proposal Judging:

• Prizes will be awarded to the best project in each age group.
• The judging committee will consist of environmental specialists from the community, student representative from NHSS, and our principal.
• Judges will give points for originality, practicality and creativity.
• Special consideration will be given to the most active projects (the most members signed on, updated discussions, active action list etc.).

Winners will be announced on a school announcement, and posted on staging.zazengo.com.

Prizes:

The prizes that will be awarded include:

• iPods - for individual participants winners
• Movie tickets – for group projects winners
• Pizza Lunch – for a winning class project 

If you have problems registering, or creating a project come to Rm. 144 at lunch for help.

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**Update** Nov. 14, 2007

Thank you for attending the "Inconvenient Truth" presentation!

We hope you enjoyed the slide show, and became aware of the problem we're facing.

Check back soon for updates on the competions, as well as photos and videos from the event!

A special thanks goes out to all those who made the event possible!

Nov, 1, 2007

Anne Parker, a member of Al Gore's Climate Project will be visiting Northview Heights S.S. on Wednesday, November 14th.