Environmental Youth Summit
Brightside’s Environmental Youth Summit, held in the spring and fall of each year, is a day-long, interactive workshop for students in grades 4-12. Students from throughout Jefferson County join together and rally around a state education initiative called Kentucky’s Green & Healthy Schools Program. This interactive program challenges students to investigate environmental issues and promote individual responsibility for the earth and their school. Students engage in hands-on environmental activities in eight key areas: energy, green spaces, transportation, resource management, hazardous chemicals, indoor air quality, storm water and climate change.
Youth Summit empowers students to examine their personal choices and address ways in which they can make small changes in their daily living that will result in improved health and environmental impact in Louisville. Participants develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to implement environmental stewardship principals in their schools, such as reducing litter, decreasing energy use, recycling and improving the environment.
Special thanks to the University of Louisville and Brightside donors for making this program available to students free of charge. Planning for Brightside’s Environmental Youth Summit is a collaborative effort between Brightside, University of Louisville’s Center for Environmental Education and JCPS Center for Environmental Education.
Brightside's Spring Environmental Youth Summit to be held in March 17, 2010.