Put Light Sensors in All Office and School Buildings So All Lights Go Off When the Rooms Are Empty

Students’ idea #3 of 50: Put light sensors in all office and school buildings so all lights go off when the rooms are empty.

Bringing great minds together just got a lot easier. Last month, working with our partners at the Global SchoolNet Foundation, we invited students from all over the world to meet online and use our Google Docs & Spreadsheets collaborative software to help create ideas for combating global warming. Working together in real-time, they created an impressive list of 50 solutions, ranging from hybrid vehicles to recycling. You can view the result of their online collaboration at: http://google.com/educators/globalwarmingideas

Participating schools: Australia Philippines Switzerland Cesar Chavez High School Nazareth Area Middle School Myrrhee Primary School Iligan City East High School DCT Swiss Hotel Management School Collegiate School NC School of Science Portland Neighbourhood House Manila Science High School Concord Elementary School and Mathematics St Philip’s College Philippine Science High School Tajikistan Davidson Young Scholars Newberry Middle School Isfara Soghd Strathfieldsaye Primary School Dirigo High School North Whiteville Academy Portugal Tasmania Ensworth Fifth Grade Northland Pines Middle School Canada Escola Básica 2-3 da Pontinha Tasman District School Frisco Elementary Norwood High School Lower Canada College Fox Creek Elementary Otay Ranch High School William Gillett Academy Puerto Rico Radians School Turkey Gemini Elementary Pacific Grove High School Enka International High School China George Washington Middle School Point Loma High School Shanghai American School Romania Etimesgut Anatolian High School Green Run High School The Quaker School at Horsham Colegiul National “Carol I” Greenwood High School Rutgers University Cook College Germany Elf School United Kingdom St. Augustine’s High School Gussner Elementary Sparrows Point Middle School DOD Bitburg Elementary Iris High School Hopkins West Junior High St. Alban’s City School Liceul Teoretic Grigore Moisil United States Indianapolis Metropolitan Stanford Middle School Ghana Vasile Alecsandri National College Opoku Ware School Ambassador Preparatory Career Academy Suzanne Middle School Annunciation Catholic Academy Saudi Arabia John Muir School T. R. Wright Elementary School India Future Scientists Clubs Baccalaureate School for Judge Memorial University of Chicago American International School Global Education Leeds Central School Laboratory Schools American School of Bombay Singapore Berry Elementary Lyman High School Vincent School Millennium Education Centre Raffles Institution Cabrini High School Lyme Middle School Vista Academy Cary Academy Massaponax High School Wood River Middle School Indonesia South Africa Central Intermediate School SMAN 3 Yogyakarta KwaZulu-Natal McDowell County Gifted Program