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Our Team: The #PassiveSolarSunday Team

Team Members: Joseline, Albin, Tyler, Ryan, Kenna, Dawson and Joshua (7-person team)

Teacher Advisor : Kimberly Church

School name: Leonard Evans Jr. Middle School

School city/state: McKinney, Texas

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Our Issue?- Global Campaign To Reduce Energy Waste & Ozone

Depletion

According to TXU and Green Mountain Energy, Sunday is the highest energy use day of the week, when

everyone is home, as a family, enjoying the game, doing chores, relaxing.

Here is a reminder of how our team began creating impact on energy waste:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28fYA5D6dpY

Please continue to see what we’ve done since winning the Air & Climate

Challenge

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#PassiveSolarSunday an Official Day in McKinney

Mayor Drafts A Resolution

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#PassiveSolarSunday & Legislation

Political Support From #Congressman Sam Johnson

Advice from #Senator Ken Paxton

Working on the Legislative Process with #Representative Scott Sanford The Team is working with

Representative Sanford to include #PassiveSolarSunday in the next legislative session, specifically addressing the Capitol building not needing to be lit 24/7. #SavingEnergyInTheCapitol

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Austin College Adopts #PassiveSolarSunday & Students Get

Expert Advice

The Team collaborated with Dr. Smucker and Katie Masucci on their cutting edge research in sustainability and made fans of

#PassiveSolarSunday. “We will definitely adopt Passive Solar Sunday to our

sustainability portfolio. It’s simple, but elegant, and efficient; it’s the low-hanging fruit of energy efficiency. We love

#PassiveSolarSunday!”

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Social Media Superstars- Twitter & Facebook

Using Social Media Powers To Create Awareness

Our Twitter Reached 5,173,098 People via People Who RT and Favorited Our Comments/Pics/Videos,

with over 2,000 tweets- @PassiveSolarSun

We reached 11,565 “clicks” through our paid Facebook campaign and 236 “likes.” – Passive Solar

Sunday

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Notable Twitter Supporters of #PassiveSolarSunday Read 5,173,098

Through Re-Tweets & Favorites

Organizations: 5,173,098Do Something Canada (Canada) 436DoSomething.org (New York City, NY) 675,395Do Something UK (UK) 13,868Britannia Comms (London, Edinburg, Geneva, Beijing, Washington) 59,237Ad Council (USA) 13,397Planetario de Pamplona (Spain) 3,350VolunTEEN Nation (St. Louis, MO) 15,325We Are The Change 52---- 781,060

Celebrities:Wynonna Judd (Nashville, TN) 60,499Cody Linley (LA, CA) 172,153David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place) 2,677,663Oklahoma City Thunder (OKC, OK) 667,979Flor Schoonhoven, Online Personality (Oslo, Norway) 26,819Marti King Young, Director/Producer (TN) 725 --3,605,838

News Outlets:NBC DFW Channel 5 News 55,615WFAA Channel 8 News anchors- Gloria Campos 9,658, Ron Corning 12,013, Teresa Woodard 2,092 and Shelly Slater 11,728FOX4 News- Jenny Anchondo 9,887 and Clarice Tinsley 6,819CBS11- Jeff Jamison 5,616#MLB Nation staff writer David W. Cash 5,753Newsgram; St. Louis City Employee News 978 --- 110,272

Universities and other schools:University of Law (UK) 18,365University of Lagos (Lagos, Nigeria) 1,529Sam Houston State (Huntsville, TX) 10,024Austin College (Sherman, TX) 1,645Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) 86,104 117,647

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Notable Twitter Support Cont’d.

• Energy Front:• Pavegen Systems (London, England) 3,125• Energy Star Buildings (Washington, D.C.) 10,428• Siemen’s Energy (Worldwide) 73,019• The Daily Energy Report (San Francisco, CA) 20,304• Global Green USA (Santa Monica, CA) 29,565• EcoSolary (Irvine, CA) 1,703• The Solar Company (Bay Area, CA) 11,944• EcoEvaluator.com (CA) 34,585• Ecolibrium Solar (Athens, OH) 990

•Sun Power Plug (Big Sky Country, MT) 3,041•Green Mountain Energy (Austin, TX) 1,878•Ganaderia, Mexico (Mexico) 214,691•EcoTech Institute (Aurora/Denver, CO) 237•Reusable Revolution (Las Vegas, NV) 69•ReWorks (NY) 756•Boston Eco (Boston, MA) 2,806•New Buildings Inst. (Vancouver, WA) 1,007•Mint Energy (Burlington, MA) 765•Patriot Energy Group (Massachusetts) 1,145 412,058

Supporters and Fans of #PassiveSolarSunday in 14 states

& 16 countries!

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Prize Planning: If we win, we would like to build a research greenhouse, (we already have the plans), where students can work in science,

composting or hydroponics