Redesigning Our Future

Green Ink Bloggers - Redesigning the Future 2015 Here are your Environmental Summit bloggers for 2015 - Chloe Fedor, Misa Harashima, Annebelle Nagy, Kayla Blackburn, and Margaret Bowerman. You can look through or search the blog to find the stories they shared from Redesigning the Future. The ladies also put together a poster to showcase their work and spoke with campers at the "What I Learned" showcase about blogging and sharing news and stories. Green Ink Bloggers Final Night Poster Counselors for Green Ink Focus Group were Hannah Davis and Mary Scott Norris. Both are students at Catawba College. Hannah will be the student college newspaper editor next year. Hannah Davis and Mary Scott Norris Thank you to all the high school Summit bloggers and to the staff counselors for helping document, save, and share the experiences, learning, and fun of the Environmental Summit.

Photo by: Emily Pieper Summit campers Justine, Shaina, Chas, and Emma (L-R) take a short break before working hard on their student Action Plans. Shaina (second from the left) plans on starting a United Students Against Sweatshops club at her school and eventually have them purchase spirit wear from sweat-free companies. A Quick News Note from Green Ink Blogger Emily Pieper 

Green Inkers Arrive at the Summit and Get Ready to Get to Work By Cyndi Allison Wittum (focus group leader) The first night at the "Redesigning the Future: Environmental Summit for High School Students 2012" campers began arriving at Catawba College. Here are the "Green Ink: Blogging for a Better Tomorrow" group. They had opted to spend the week covering the news all across the summit. I have called my group the Green Inkers. They look a tad nervous on this first night, but it did not take them long to get in the swing on things. In fact, I am absolutely amazed at the terrific content they have produced (working together) in just a couple of days. Only one student had blogged previously. By the second full day of the summit, the Green Inkers looked like a professional news room crew. They were coming up with their own ideas, gathering information during the short breaks between sessions, and they had articles up and ready for review before the sun s...

We Use Our Differences for a Common Goal at the Environmental Summit By Jocelyn  Each student at the Summit has a unique personality and ways we contribute that were considered when choosing what kind of group we wanted to be participating in before coming here. (Students were able to pick their groups.) The group I chose was "Green Ink: Blogging for a Better Tomorrow," because I enjoy using technology to get information out to the people, and I'm really good at working with computers. Not everyone  is the same, because if that were the case, then everything would be boring. Always. Being together to accomplish something will be better than going solo (when we all bring our own special talents to the table). Here are some of the various groups from the Redesigning the Earth Summit 2012. This group is outside gathering materials for an experiment. Another focus group is doing lab work. My blogging group is gathering ide...