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STEAM Student Scholarship

Full STEAM Ahead Project ReChargeStudent Scholarship Do you know a great senior who will be pursuing a career in a STEAM field? Then you need the Full STEAM Ahead Project ReCharge Scholarship. We are proud to contribute to the opportunities available to Nevada youth interested in pursuing a STEAM career after graduation. We are offering two scholarships for $500 each. Apply […]

08.03.2021Education, Fundraising, Project ReCharge

Project ReCharge Sneak Peek Teacher Training

In January Project ReCharge virtually hosted our first Sneak Peek training session where 30 teachers from 7 Nevada school districts and 24 schools engaged with our Sustainability Introduction lesson. These incredible educators from across multiple disciplines including STEM, science, art, social studies, robotics, and CTE, calculated their carbon footprint and learned how to keep the topic of sustainability […]

08.03.2021Project ReCharge

STEM internship with Tesla

This semester, Washoe County Students participating in the STEM internship and service-learning class will be working with a group of Tesla Engineers to help develop hands-on activities exploring solar battery storage. Students will utilize the Powerwall Educational carts, products of a 2017 and 2019 Project ReCharge student proposal. Tesla volunteers took their ideas and made them into a reality […]

08.03.2021Fundraising, Partners, Project ReCharge, Tesla

Goodie bags of Love for our Master Teachers

We love our Master Teachers! They work tirelessly to bring their students’ the best education possible. When they are not working with kids they are leading other teachers through professional development in order to empower teachers to teach sustainability and energy efficiency across the state. Our Master Teachers allow Project ReCharge to provide the BEST professional […]

08.03.2021Partners, Project ReCharge

Project ReCharge Sneak Peek Virtual Training

We have picked a few of our favorite innovative sustainability and energy efficiency lessons from our STEAM curriculum to share with teachers everywhere! Participating teachers will receive the materials for these virtual professional development sessions, a stipend or PD hours but more importantly will experience how fun, engaging, and impactful these topics can be for their students! These 2- hour hands-on training sessions […]

22.11.2020Project ReCharge

National Energy Efficiency Day

On October 7th, in support of National Energy Efficiency Day Envirolution, SWEEP, NV Energy, and the Governor’s Office of Energy recognized the efforts of robotics students from Dayton Intermediate in Lyon County. Last year these students completed a Project ReCharge LED school retrofit proposal, which was funded by Envirolution and our partners. Once installed, the school will start saving close […]

20.11.2020GREENevada, Press, Project ReCharge

Teacher Spotlight Hands-on and engaging distance learning

This year it has been amazing to see teachers engaging with their students in creative ways. Our very own Project ReCharge teacher Cameron Piggott from Sawyer MS in Las Vegas has been working with us to supply his distance learning students with individual bags of hands-on materials. We were able to join his class virtually and watch […]

19.11.2020Project ReCharge

Project ReCharge Training Goes Virtual But Stays Hands-On!

THANK YOU to all the teachers, master teachers, and staff that participated in our first ever virtual professional development! On July 27th, 28th, & 29th, we hosted our Project ReCharge Summer Professional Development completely virtual and it was a huge success! 30 teachers signed-up from Washoe, Carson, Clark, Nye, Elko & Lyon County for this 3-Day hands-on training. […]

01.08.2020Project ReCharge

Curriculum Updates

CSI – Climate Scene Investigation: Envirolution is proud to announce a newly developed activity for students to investigate the effects of greenhouse gases and climate change. This lesson was designed to be a reverse escape room – instead of students breaking out of a room, they will solve puzzles to break into our tool kit to determine […]

02.05.2020Project ReCharge

Envirolution Announces Americorp Position for Education and Outreach Coordinator

Envirolution is hiring! We are recruiting for an AmeriCorps member to be our Education and Outreach Coordinator. This individual will help Envirolution with our Project ReCharge interactive energy education program and other sustainability projects. Interested candidates should contact donna.walden@envirolution.org by August 31, 2018. Here’s a link to our position description.

23.08.2018Blog, Education, Project ReCharge