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Sponsored by The State Energy Conservation
Office, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts,
and The United States Department of Energy.
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Watt Watchers is a free, state-sponsored program
to help school districts save energy and money by
getting students involved.
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World Energy Use
For the past century, global energy growth
marched in lockstep with the economic growth.
Energy use increased 400 to accommodate a
doubling of world population and quadrupling of
Gross World Product.
The world now consumes the equivalent of 175
Million barrels of oil each day. Equal to
85,000 gallons of gasoline each second!
Source Center for Renewable Energy and
Sustainable Technology
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Schools in Texas spend over 450 Million every
year to light, heat, and cool buildings. 25 is
wasted Source State Energy Conservation Office
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The 50 bill Yours to Keep or Yours to Pay!
Turning out the lights at lunch and after
school Saves 50 per classroom over a 180 school
year If every classroom in Texas participated
-- 14 Million saved
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- Its Simple
- Its Easy
- Its Effective
- Its Fun
- It has a big impact
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- Free kit
- Everything you need
- Get started right away
- Binders
- Lanyards
- Name Badges
- Pencils
- Tickets
- Patrol check sheets
- Agreements
- CD-Rom
- Program Manual
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- Keep records
- Track your WW program
- Start in Stealth Mode
- Identify best class
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- Use tickets in kit
- Design your own
- Laminate permanent
- Dont forget Thank Yous
10Stealth Watt Watchers
- If you dont know where you started, how will you
know how far you have come.
11Did you say we would get a prize???
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- Students get Certificate of Achievement
- Zero Hero Awards
- Most Improved Award
- Sponsors receive service award yearly
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5 year pins
- Five Year Service Pins
- Watt Watchers are dedicated
- About 1500 have been awarded
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Photo of CD-ROM, Newpapers,
- Newspaper published 3 times per year
- 16-24 pages, 11x17 tabloid
- Full color
- Annual circulation 25,000
- Mailed to all sponsors
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Watt Watchers
- Students love Watt Watchers, too
- Students learn a valuable lesson to carry
throughout life - You will change the world for the better
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- K-12 Lesson Plans
- Correlated to the Texas Essential Knowledge
and Skills (TEKS) and the Texas Assessment of
Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) - Broad Subject Range Math, Science, Social
Studies, Language Arts, Writing etc.
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- Traveling Energy Exploration Stations are
available for teachers to check out and use in
their classrooms for FREE! - Similar to discovery boxes
- Correlated to the Texas Essential Knowledge
and Skills (TEKS) and the Texas Assessment of
Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) - The stations include a wide variety of
materials that can be used by the teacher or as a
center for the students.
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- Upper Elementary and Middle school students are
invited to design, build and race Junior Solar
Sprint (JSS) cars. - The small model cars powered entirely by solar
energy and steered by wires are built as team
efforts guided by teachers. - The students race their cars against one
another.
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- An Energy Encounter is a one day event to
provide lots of information, ideas, and
excitement about energy projects for students,
teachers and administrators.
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The Real Projects is a tool to assist High School
Student Groups in doing real projects with real
results. The handbook has project ideas that
include vending machine audits, classroom
lighting audits, change a light campaign,
mentoring a Watt Watchers program and much more.
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- The computers in your school are wasting energy.
- You can help your school save money.
- Implement computer monitor power management.
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Watt Watchers wants you to take action and start
Talking Trash at your school! Too much paper is
put into the trash can it should be placed in a
recycling bin that is emptied regularly.
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Who does the program at your school?
- Enrolled programs
- High Schools
- Middle Schools Junior Highs
- Elementary
- Every School Can Be a Watt Watchers School!
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- 1-888-US WATTS
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