David Bellamy Opens Environment Centre
Categories: School Events
We are delighted that, On Monday 1st December, Professor David Bellamy OBE officially opened the New Environmental and Global Research Centre at the College. He was joined by Yvonne Baker, Chief Executive of STEMNET, an organisation that seeks to encourage the adoption of science, technology, engineering and maths study in the UK.
The Centre will be used as a teaching room for students with integrated resources that demonstrate the advantages of sustainable living. These include rainwater harvesting facilities, solar water heating and a wind turbine powered PC. Students will be encouraged to investigate, calculate, and debate the advantages and disadvantages of sustainable developments locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. It is important that we don’t just teach young people about environmental matters, but that they understand how they can apply what they learn to the real world, and that is what we would like to achieve with this new centre.
At the opening event Students belonging to the Energy Monitoring Club showed business and school guests how they were monitoring electricity use in the whole school, and how this was encouraging everyone to turn off unused lights, computers and sockets. Then they could also calculate their carbon and financial savings.
Following an introduction by Yvonne Baker, CEO of STEMnet, David Bellamy addressed the gathering. “We need to hear about good news stories like Swavesey,” he said. “In all my travels around the world, I am finding more and more organisations that are getting together and doing something to help make a real difference. This is a fantastic resource and I have great pleasure in declaring it officially open.”The Centre will also be made available for conferences for local business use.
The Centre has been developed with the support of a number of sponsors. On behalf of the students Swavesey Village College would like to thank;
RM Ltd., STEMNET, East of England Development Agency, Cambridge Consultants, Specialist Schools & Academies Trust, Mott Macdonald Ltd, AQUA Mechanical Ltd, BAXI Ltd, Polypipe, Precedence Ltd and JRN Building Services Ltd. for their support in making this project so successful and for providing such an excellent resource for the ,students and the community.
For details contact Kay Jackson at the College (230366)