Geoffrey Barnes
Mountainside, New Jersey

  • Boy Scouts
  • Campus Clean Stream Campaign
  • Watershed Clean-up
  • Leader, YMCA Youth Service Corps
  • AP Physics and Chemistry, Union County High School for Math, Science and Technology
  • Robotics Club
  • Researcher, Alternative Fuels

Garrett Bruno
Tequesta, Florida

  • Science Project - Surveying and tallying exotic invasive plant species around my high school to create and implement elimination strategies.
  • Select Student Member, Environmental Sustainability Committee
  • President, School Environmental Club
  • Organizer, Coastal Clean-ups
  • Sponsor, Green Bag Project
  • Volunteer, Greenpeace
  • Select Intern, The Loggerhead Marinelife Center

Lauren Buchanan
Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Founder, School Climate Change Awareness Club at Santa Fe Prep
  • Award Recipient, Outstanding Work as an Earth Science Student
  • Promoter, Fossil Fuel Energy Fast and Power Pledge
  • Organizer, Climate Change Forum
  • First Freshman Granted Independent Community Service Project
  • Legislative Work at Local and National Level

Emily Burke
Moultonborough, New Hampshire

  • Coordinator/Leader, New Hampshire Youth Earth Summit
  • President and Co-Founder, School Outing Club
  • Active Member, Recycler Club
  • Trip Leader, Squam Lakes Association Youth Kayak and Backpack Programs

Andrew Butler
Alpharetta, Georgia

  • Participant, Rivers Alive
  • Organizer/Youth Educator, Water Festival
  • Science Fair - Bioretension Cells Ability to Remove Nonpoint Source Pollutants from Stormwater Runoff
  • Science Olympiad, Five Years - First in the State of Georgia in Herpetology and Third in the State of Georgia in Oceanography.
  • Promoter, The Clean Air Campaign’s Anti-idling Program

Taylor Chargois
Sulphur, Louisiana

  • Founder, Parish Youth Environmental Club, Green T.E.E.N.S.
  • Participant, Select Louisiana State Science Camp, Wild Woods Wandering
  • Research, Tensas National Wildlife Refuge
  • Regional Representative, Louisiana 4-H
  • Selection Committee, 2008-2009 Louisiana 4-H Service Learning Project

Edwin Corgiat
Norris, Tennessee

  • Semi-finalist, 2007 Weather Channel Forecast Earth Summit Contest
  • Youth and Community Educator
  • Award Recipient, Rotary Youth Leadership Award
  • Select Member, State Certified Anderson County Youth Leadership
  • President, School Environmental Club
  • National Honor Society - Service Plan is for Greener Schools

Divya Dayal
Oakland Gardens, New York

  • Founder and President, School Environmental Club
  • Organizer, Student-led Earth Awareness Festival in Battery Park.
  • Member, Greenpeace Student Network
  • Member, Sierra Club Student Coalition
  • Participant, Power Vote Campaign
  • Presenter, 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting - Researching a novel atmospheric carbon-reducing compound

Pavane Gorrepati
Davenport, Iowa

  • Iowa State Science Fair - Tested Effectiveness of Reversible and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
  • Founder, School Environmental Club
  • Developer, Green Bags Campaign
  • Founder, Iowa Schools Environmental Club Summit
  • International Studies - Hyderabad, India School Information Exchange

Jordan Howard
Los Angeles, California

  • Active Member, Green Ambassadors
  • Director, 12-minute Short Film on Simple Changes at Home
  • International Studies - Sustainability Research in Costa Rica

James Lancaster
Alpharetta, Georgia

  • Georgia Tech Research Project  - Use of sodium polyacrylate to conserve water; reducing usage by 50% 
  • Georgia Science & Engineering Fair, Second Place
  • President and Founding Member of School Environmental Club - Enacted School-wide Recycling Program
  • Founder, Student Democrats
  • Student Council 

Alec Loorz
Ventura, California

  • Founder, Non-Profit Organization, Kids vs. Global Warming (kids-vs-globalwarming.com)
  • Developer, Interactive Climate Presentation for Schools and Environmental Groups
  • Founder, Global Warming Action Teams (GWATs) in California Schools
  • Creator, Sea Level Awareness Project (SLAP)
  • Filmmaker, Video/Short Subject, iMatter

Lillian McBee
Jupiter, Florida

  • Leader, Environmental Research and Field Studies Academy - Jupiter High School (JHS) Environthon Team - 1st Place Action Project; 3rd Place Overall
  • Leader, FAU Pine Jog Team
  • Volunteer Team Member, Busch Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Girl Scouts
  • National Award Recipient, DOI Conservation Award
  • Grant/Proposal Writer

Benjamin McMullen
Chesterland, Ohio

  • Founder, Wetlands Education Team
  • Built Nesting Platforms for Threatened Osprey
  • Developer, Outdoor Classroom and Lesson Plan
  • Developer, Traveling Wetlands and Watershed Education Trunks for Educators
  • Organizer, Local Environmental Coalition
  • Legislative Work on Wetland Awareness
  • Grant Writer

Dwayne Mitchell
Lansing, Illinois

  • Active Member, Arbor Day Foundation
  • Botany Studies, Diverse Species Studies
  • Leader, Neighborhood Recycling Drive
  • Founder and President, Youth Tree Planting Club

Sara Moghul
Jersey City, New Jersey

  • Documentary Filmmaker, Effects of Carelessness on the Environment and Animals
  • Student, AP Environmental Studies

Ryan Morgan
Moscow, Pennsylvania

  • Founder, Project Greenlight - Through grants and fundraising, collected nearly two thousand CFLs to distribute to community members
  • Founder, School Environmental Club

Sara Mueller
State College, Pennsylvania

  • Select Attendee, Focus the Nation Summit at Penn State University
  • President and Co-Founder, State College Area High School Green Sierra Coalition such as recycling, sustainable landscaping, promoting green living and creating environmental awareness through education. 
  • Leader-in-Training, Local State College Youth Environmental Center

Anne Piccolo
Cos Cob, Connecticut

  • Girl Scout
  • Organizer, Clean Energy Forum for Greenwich, Connecticut
  • Supporter and Event Organizer, 350.org
  • Proclamation Award Recipient from First Selectman
  • Leadership Training, Outward Bound

Koa Smith
Ipswich, Massachusetts

  • Assistant, Installation of Solar Thermal Heating Unit
  • Active Participant, Solar Now, an International Renewable Energy site
  • Team Member, Earthship Project in Rural New Mexico
  • Participant, School Energy Audit
  • Speaker, College Environmental Leadership Conference at Yale University
  • Co-Founder, Venture to Bring Photovoltaic Panels to Schools in Israel

Tewosret Vaughn
Madison, Wisconsin

  • Student, A.P. Environmental Studies
  • Research Assistant, Pheasant Branch Conservancy
  • Participant, Yahara Lakes Conference.
  • Contributor, Nuts About Nature Column in Local Newspaper

Michael Vredenburgh
Carlsbad, California

  • Research, Improving Wastewater Treatment - Presented findings to San Diego Water Authority
  • Regional Science Fair Finalist
  • State Science Fair Finalist
  • Team Captain, National Ocean Sciences Bowl at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
  • Active Member, Future Voters of America

We congratulate our 2008 Forecast Earth Summit Contest eco-ambassador winners.  These twenty-two students collectively represent 16 states across the USA and have demonstrated their passion and concern for the environment.

Our hope is that through this recognition, these students will continue to be inspired to drive environmental change in their communities and schools.

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