NYC Roobotics Team Gets Visit From Climate Change Presenter

KidsTechLabs Robotic's team received a visit from Shino who discussed global warming and climate change. Shino is one of only 200 people trained by Al Gore to discuss slides from an Inconvenient Truth. Shino stayed for over an hour and after the discussion talked with the class about things they can do to impact their environment and reduce their carbon footprint. The team gave their thoughts: Walk more, use recyclable bags at the grocery store, use energy efficient appliances, plant more trees and become educated about what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.

The team also learned about cool projects going on around the neighborhood. For instance, in Ridgefield Conneticut a company has built technology onto bicycles used in a gym to power the grid. What does this mean? Exercise classes create energy to power lights instead of using additional fossil fuels.

After Shino left, the class was given the challenge of coming up with additional technologies that could impact their environment. Their answers centered around capturing energy from a person's movement; Sneakers which obtained energy from a person walking, toilets that captured energy from a single flush ( a company actually invented a micro hydrolic turbine in 2006), gym floors that obtained energy from foot motion and more.

I loved their innovative and clever ideas!