Challenge 20/20 Photo Gallery

Challenge 20/20 Photo Gallery

The Bright School Awareness Campaign consisted of students designing and printing fact filled flyers and stickers to distribute to students, parents, faculty, staff, and administrators as they arrived at Bright School in an effort to encourage conservation of water. The flyers and stickers were printed in both English and Spanish.

Students worked with scientist, George Bartnik from the Tennessee Aquarium to test water for pH levels, turbidity, and temperature in an effort to determineif the water couldsupport aquatic life.

Students in Colegio Cristobol Colon worked with their teachers to design and distribute flyers to promote water conservation.

Colegio Cristobol Colon students display their survey.

Students at Colegio Cristobol Colon test water.

Students create posters for campaignswithin their school andtheir community in an effort to urge the readers to "Save the Water."

This student is viewing treated water in the lab at the Dalton Utilities River Water Treatment Facility. Bright School students toured the Dalton Utilities' Spring CreekNature Preserve, River Water Treatment Facility, and Waste Water Treatment Plant all of which are located near Dalton, Georgia. The students and their teachers were especially impresssed with the innovation employed at this facility. The Dalton UtilitiesWaste Water Treatment Plant uses partially cleaned water to cool the coils at thepower plant.

J. F. Rischard, in his book entitled High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them,suggests partnerships with civil society, public sector, and private sector. In an effort to employ his recommendations, students at Bright School requested a meeting with Mayor Ron Littlefield of Chattanooga, Tennessee to discuss past, present, and future water needs in the area. The meeting was very enlightening. Students learned of past problems involving the pollution of the Tennessee River which is today's source of drinking water for Chattanooga residents.

Bright School students took a field trip with students from theAtlanta International School. Students toured Snap Finger Waste Water Treatment Plant with students from the International School.

Mrs. Canelli of the Moccasin Bend Waste Water Treatment Plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee hosted an educational tour with students and explained the processes that the waste water undergoes prior to being released back into the Tennessee River. Students were surprised to learn that the water is cleaner when released than it was when it was drawn from the river by theTennesssee American Water Company to begin the purification process for household use. Students also learnedmany uses of the solid waste products extracted during the cleaning andtreatment processes.

OAPAS is working with the students in Colegio Cristobol Colon in Mexico City. OAPAS is a government office that regulates water cleanlinessin Mexico and is somewhat comparable to the United States Clean Water Protection Act.

The students who visited Mayor Littlefield in Chattanooga served as members of a panel discussion to allow their peers to ask questions in an effort to share the information they learned from the Mayor.

Students in Mexico City work on the Challenge 20/20 project in their classroom.

Colegio Cristobol Colon's share their school's poster awareness campaign.

Student research included efforts to understand the linear approach as well as the 20 global problems in Jean Francois Rischard's book, High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. Students also tried to understand the unprecedented demographic explosion and new world economy explained by Rischard.

Students from Chattanooga, Tennessee worked with scientists near the Great Smokey Mountains National Park to check for the presence of particular aquatic life in an effort to determine the cleanliness of the streams.

Students in Mexico City solve a puzzle.

Colegio Cristobol Colon has video conferencing equipment available for student use in their school. Fifth grade students in Chattanooga partnered with the University of Tennessee at Chattanoogato facilitate communications via video conferencing with Colegio Cristobol Colon students and teachers. This was one of the technological integrations that allowed students from the two countries to communicate. Others means of communication included blogs and teacher monitored e-mails.

The Tennessee American Water Company is the utility company that provides drinking water to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Kim Dalton of Tennessee American Waterbrought water samples from the Tennessee River to Bright School andworked with the students to test the water samples she supplied. Their teacher then recorded the results and reported them online to the Water Environment Federation so that the students results were reported as a part of World Water Monitoring Day.