Media Announcements and Offerings - Winter 2011-2012

• Utah Clean Cities perform their songs at their Clean the Air Kick-Off
• Enact club students at Penndale are energy saving mavens.
• Solar Power Project Debuts at Local Middle School
• Capitol Heights students' solar panel stems from hands-on learning

Media Announcements and Offerings - Fall 2011

• Science teachers are students for a day at energy conference.
• NEED honors Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities for support of Energy Education in Kentucky (August 2011)
• NEED has teamed up with Susan Bonilla for an upcoming free workshop in Concord.
• Children celebrate SolarWorld 'Solar2Schools' Project at Arlington, Virginia Elementary School.
• NEED trains teachers about solar energy at the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation funded workshops - Chicago and Mason City Illinois

Media Announcements and Offerings - Summer 2011

• KU's August Newsletter has some activities to help you improve your energy consumption.
• Energy4Me materials developed in partnership with NEED are a huge hit and will be used by NEED’s trainers throughout the 2011-2012 school year.
• Encana's Social Responsibility Report highlights the NEED-Encana partnership 

Media Announcements and Offerings - Spring 2011

• The Galveston County Daily News writes an article about Satori School, in Galveston, TX. Satori is the NEED National Primary School of the Year.
• $15,000 in grants from PG&E help fund solar education at Paradise Intermediate School in California. The Paradise Post also has coverage of the "Solarbration." For a video from the Solarbration, click here.
• The Harwich Learning Center in Massachusetts is the national winner in the Special Project category. Read an article about Harwich's Advenure Seekers Energy Club in The Cape Cod Chronicle.
• Nearly 30 teachers from Ventura, Oxnard and Newbury Park, California attended a one-day workshop at Ormond Beach Generating Station designed to help them bring energy education alive in the classroom. 
• TXU Energy and the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) teamed up on Tuesday, May 10, to hold the district’s first ever “Solarbration” to dedicate Fort Bend ISD’s new web-enabled solar panel and host solar education booths for local intermediate students.
• Richardsville Elementary School, designed to be a “net zero” building that generates as much electricity through solar panels as its uses, was the featured building on the recent High Performance School Building workshop held in Bowling Green.
• Solar Panels will be installed at Grand Ridge Elementary in Issaquah, WA, as part of a $1.2 million grant donated by the Wal-Mart Foundation through the National Energy Education Development Project.
• George Mason University and NEED have partnered for Go Green with Gunston, an environmental education program aimed at elementary school students and their families.
• Para Los Ninos Charter Elementary School goes green with help from new solar panels as part of a $1.2 million Walmart Foundation grant to the National Energy Education Development Project. Watch the video here.
• Four Los Angeles area schools will soon be equipped with solar panels and corresponding hands-on classroom curriculum thanks to a $1.2 million Walmart Foundation grant to the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED).
• TXU Energy presents Fort Bend ISD with a $161,575 Energy Efficiency Rebate
• Buffalo Sabres center Derek Roy appeared at Depew Middle School to honor two students for their work on energy conservation. 
• TXU Energy donated eight solar panels to the Lakehill Preparatory School in Dallas to help establish a "solar academy" at the school.
• PECO and NEED visit Fugett Middle School in West Chester, PA to teach students about energy. 
• West Philadelphia teachers go Back to School for environmental curriculum.
• ConocoPhillips and the NEED Project Collaborate for the Fourth Year to Improve Energy Education in U.S. Schools
• The Syracuse City School District is partnering with NEED on two year United States Environmental Protection Agency Grant. The project will further the Districts commitment to energy conversation and the use of green technology.
• The Waterways Journal features a story about our partner, RiverWorks Discovery, and their use of NEED's Energy and Our Rivers curriculum.
• The Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence's December/January newsletter has several articles about the Kentucky NEED Project.

Media Announcements and Offerings - Fall 2010

• NEED teacher and facilitator Shannon Donovan named 2011 Rhode Island Teacher of the Year.
• Students at Henley Middle School in Crozet, VA learned about wind turbines using NEED activities. Read the story and watch the video from WVIR-TV. 
• Fourteen Philadelphia area elementary and middle schools are participating in the PECO Energizing Education Program. Designed in cooperation with NEED, and in partnership with The Franklin Institute, the project-based curriculum uses hands-on activities to explore the relationship between energy efficiency, conservation and environmental preservation. Read the story on Yahoo! Finance.
• NEED, along with Scott County Middle School's Energy Club, recently helped the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research improve the efficiency of their building by performing an energy audit.
• More than 200 Kentucky students from Henderson, Union, Webster, and Crittenden counties learned about energy conservation at the 2010 Energy Awareness Day at Henderson Community College.
• PECO Energy Provides $10,000 Science and Technology Grant to Middle Schools in the West Chester Area School District.
• NREL News Feature: Wind Turbines Whip Up Excitement, School Pride.
• Chesapeake Public Schools' fall energy newsletter has some helpful tips about saving energy.
• Michigan teachers get energy curriculum and resources at the Midwest Energy Cooperative workshop in Cassopolis, MI. For photos of the workshop, click here.
• For their community service commitment, several students in the Park View Middle School (in Cranston, RI) NEED program taught children about recycling and energy conservation. Read about it in the Cranston Herald.
• On October 21, 2010, the Kentucky NEED Project received the 2010 Community Luminary Award from the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection Cabinet in recognition of their exemplary efforts in community-based environmental education and outreach for their Change the World, Start with Energy Star campaign.
• Kentucky students participated in the 2010 Energy Awareness Day event at the KCTCS Henderson Community College Campus. The event was created using NEED guidelines. Students from the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Unit at Henderson County High School performed a skit “Harry Spotter and the Quest for the Right Light (shown at right)” 
• NEED has partnered with the Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company and has reached nearly 78,000 elementary- and middle-school students through the companies' Children's Energy Education Program.
• The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development announced it will partner with the National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project to host the Tennessee Energy Management Workshop for Schools to help K-12 schools lessen the impact of energy costs on school budgets.  The free, one-day workshops will help school administrators, managers and school districts develop multi-disciplinary energy management plans to provide real solutions and savings on energy expenses.
• National Fuel and the Buffalo Sabres' Paul Gaustad Invite You to Join the NEED Project. National Fuel’s Energy Detectives Program, started in 2008, offers Western New York schools an education program for fifth through twelfth grade teachers to help students become Energy Detectives by learning about energy efficiency, conservation and energy sources.
• Encana and NEED team up to present workshops in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado and Wyoming. Participants were surveyed and 95% of teachers agreed that using NEED curriculum increased their students' knowledge and understanding of energy. 
• ConocoPhillips launched its annual fall energy workshop series by announcing workshops with school districts in 25 cities.
• New Hybrid Electric School Bus will Save Covington, Kentucky Schools Money and Reduce Carbon Emissions. 
• San Jose and PG&E flip the switch on New Energy Academy, where students focus on green technology.

Media Announcements and Offerings - Summer 2010

• NEED school, Park View Middle School in Cranston, R.I. has been labeled as an EPA Energy Star building! The Energy Star standard certifies an energy-efficient facility and rates those buildings in the top 25 percent of all facilities nationally, based on the EPA’s National Energy Performance Rating system.
• NEED was recently awarded a Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Research and Development Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to Hydrogen Education.
• The 2010 NEED Energy Conference for Educators just wrapped up in Dallas, TX. View presentations and photos of this week-long professional development event. Read What Happens When 110 Teachers Get Together, a blog entry for Energy4Me by Mary Spruill, NEED's Executive Director. 
• NEW!!! Photos of the 30th Annual Youth Awards Program in Washington, D.C. Watch coverage of NEED Youth Awards winning programs from KHOU Houston.  More about the NEED Youth Awards Program.
• Paradise Intermediate School science teacher and NEED TAB member, Greg Holman recently received the 2010 PG&E Solar Schools Inspirational Educator of the Year Award. He and nine Paradise Intermediate students were honored before July 17's San Francisco Giants baseball game. The Paradise Post has an article about Holman. (July 20)
• The Cranston Herald writes about Park View Middle School's trip to Youth Awards (July 15, 2010)

 Media Announcements and Offerings - Spring 2010

• NEED receives $1.2 million grant from Walmart Foundation for Solar Schools Program. View PR Newswire Story.
• Savannah Morning News article on NEED's Elba Island LNG Workshop sponsored by Southern LNG/El Paso Foundation (April 2010)
• Warren County Schools (Kentucky) receives high praise for Energy Carnival activities (April 22, 2010)
• The NEED Project and its local programs rank as top Pledge Drivers for the Change the World with EnergyStar campaign (April 2010)
• Kennedy Middle School (Kankakee, Illinois) featured on the EnergyStar website.

Media Announcements and Offerings - Fall 2009

• EnCana presentation at the Riverton, Wyoming Energy Workshop - in pdf
• NEED and George Mason University work together on Mason's Go Green With Gunston program. 
• Energy Presentation made for the IPAA sponsored Massachusetts Energy Workshop - Westport, MA

Media Announcements and Offerings - Summer 2009

• NEED Helps Kick off The Oil and the Contemporary Globe Workshop at Harvard University
• PG&E Solar Schools Expo a big success in Stockton, California
• NEED Announces Winners of the 29th Annual Youth Awards for Energy Achievement
• NEED featured on the Houston Museum of Natural Science Blog!

Media Announcements and Offerings - April 2009

• The Cranston Herald visited the Park View Middle School hosted Rhode Island Energy Workshop - great coverage! 
• Park View Middle School hits its goal for the Change-a-Light, Change-the-World campaign!
• View the ConocoPhillips television ad highlighting NEED!

Media Release - April 2008

• Kenton County School District Energy WISE Program Recognized (Kentucky)

Media Release - May 2008

• Cypress Fairbanks ISD announces participating in the TXU Solar Academy (audio release)
• Congratulations to Scituate High School

Media Release and Events - October 2008

• National Fuel, the Buffalo Sabres, and The NEED Project work together to provide energy education resources to teachers, students and their families in Western New York. 
• Russell Area Technology Center celebrates solar installation and exemplary work in workforce development. Congratulations to NEED Teacher Doug Keaton and his students! 
• Russell Area Technology Center featured in Manufacturing and Technology eJournal

Media Release and Events - November 2008

• American Electric Power's Indiana Michigan Power sponsors NEED workshop - Press Release
• Photos and Images