Author Archives: Chloe Sprecker

Ecospace

2017, San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

EESl N°1 Nacional of San Antonio de Areco: Students: Patricio Espinoza, Jeremias Nahuel Nievas

This project proposes to create a space, within the school premisses, in which students can come in contact with renewable energies and its relationship with environmental care and global warming.

ecospace implementation

They found a busy place where lots of students pass everyday that now its illuminated by photovoltaic solar energy system and have dynamic panels with information of interest on the proposed topic. The information have visual and digital format so that students can see and carry the information in their electronic devices.

In addition, they propose this place as a reservoir of information prepared by teachers and students from this highschool, that can be shared with other schools within the basin.

Groundskeeperbot

2017, Carmen de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

EES N°2 “Mariano Moreno” of Carmen de Areco: Student: Paula Perez Bianchi

This project is based on robotic and artificial intelligence technologies. At its first stage,Paula developed a robotic module that meets the irrigation needs of a garden. The system uses Arduino microcontrollers and an artificial intelligence node in charge of learning the different biological conditions to be able to make irrigation decisions based on soil moisture and plant demand.

The University of San Antonio de Areco (UNSAdA) sponsored a trip to the student to participate.

App Life

2017, San Andres de Giles, Buenos Aires, Argentina

app life EET N°1 of San Andrés de Giles. Students: Tomás Pellegrini,Valentina Miranda, Joaquín Coarasa, Cecilia Yucra Ramos.

This project suggests the creation of an application for mobile devices that warns about agrochemical spraying in the local areas and rural schools of the Areco river basin.This application is called APP VIDA, and has already been developed to be executed on phones, tablets and other mobile devices. This project is an easy and effective solution to a current problem of high social impact in the basin surroundings.

Status: The students have created the platform and are waiting for the Municipality to administer the rest of the information required for launch.

Reducing Water Use with Faucet Aerators

2016, Sacramento, California, USA

Faucet Aerators student implementation project California winner photo Brian Shan was proud to place first in the 2015 Caring for our Watersheds contest for his proposal to install aerators on faucets in his school. Faucet aerators deliver a mixture of water and air, limiting how much water is released while maintaining pressure and reducing splashing. The aerators, relatively inexpensive and easy to install, help conserve water and reduce energy use and costs.

Brian met with his school principal and facilities director to obtain permission to make this easy upgrade that would have the potential to reduce water use from hand washing by 40%. After obtaining approval he purchased aerators and installed them in 18 sinks located in bathrooms on his school’s campus. Knowing that this relatively simple project can save a lot of water, Brian plans on extending his project to other schools in his district.

Water Conservation….easy as 1, 2, 3 (or at least installing the aerators!)

Notes of Nature

2016 San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

EES N°2 Escuela Pannunzio, San Antonio de Areco.

The project proposed the realization of an educational mural on the walls of the school that represents the harmony and beauty of nature accompanied by musical concepts.

implementation of notes of nature Four murals were painted along the wall, which form a musical circuit, intertwining nature, the seasons, and the different pictorial art styles.

Each visual narration represent the magnificence of a musical work in 4 meters in length, and the flora and fauna are represented inside.

This is now a place that reminds the students every day of caring for the whole World.

implementation of notes of nature

Musical Nature

2016, San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

EESTN°2 . Escuela Pannunzio, San Antonio de Areco.

The project proposes to compose a melody inspired by nature in a collaborative way with students from other places. The project was carried out with the help of a composer specialized in collaborative musical composition, called Hernán Alzieri.

Renewable Energy

2016, San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

EEST N°1. Students: Julio Gastón Zarate, Patricio Emilio, Juan de la Cruz Barroso, Juan Bautista Ojeda

This project is based on the school developing and creating three educational modules about how to use solar photovoltaic energy, hydraulic energy and wind energy. This project was implemented together with the UNSADA (San Antonio de Areco University).

renewable energy student action

Sweet Dreams for the Environment

2016, San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

– EES N°4 Malvinas Argentinas –Students: Carlos Roman Barrios, Brisa Regina Gambatesa, Alexis Fabián Sambugnah, Sabrina Trinidad Sosa

This project will focus on an environmental problem associated with waste produced by the horse racing industry, what is known as “the horse bed”.

vermicomposting student action Students proposed the implementation of a worm compost (vermicompost) production module. The aim of this is that it will allow students to learn how to manipulate all aspects related to the production and selling of a natural fertilizer like worm compost (vermicompost), and it will enable them to imagine, in the near future, a local source of green work.

Forbidden to Walk by the Kiosk

2016, San Andres de Giles, Buenos Aires, Argentina

– EES Técnica N1 “Jorge Alfredo Maciel”- San Andres de Giles. Students: Antonio Leandro Avila, Joaquín Gobetti, Melody Selene Prieto, Agustina Ariana Retamar

This project sets out the nutrition and health of adolescent students as an environmental issue, and points out the important role of the food sold at the school kiosk as a sphere of action to develop better habits.

Villa Espil – A Place for the Butterflies

2016 Villa Espil, San Andres de Giles, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Escuela de Educación Secundaria N°5 – Villa Espil, San Andrés de Giles. Students: Sonia Sequeira, Mónica Figuerea, Susana Lescano, Verónica Pausa

A rural town of just a few inhabitants wants to see butterflies again. Driven by this idea, they proposed to adapt gardens and town squares for butterflies to be able to complete their life cycle.

butterfly mural 2

The proposal supports not only the production of biodiversity, but also aims at the possibility of developing tourism around these small insects and the beautiful flora that allows this by creating a huge mural in the town entrance.