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Breaking News: World Savvy Challenge National Competition Teams Announced!

Charmagne Campbell-Patton

April 10th 2012

This year, nearly 2500 students from around the country participated in World Savvy’s redesigned and enhanced youth engagement program – the World Savvy Challenge. Students competed at live events in Minneapolis and San Francisco with creative performances and exhibits, as well as in an online regional competition with websites and documentaries. All students that competed also developed a written knowledge-to-action plan, which outlined how their team planned to carry one of their solutions forward through specific actions. The teams that scored in the top 10% of their division and at least 75 points are invited to submit their knowledge to action plans to a national competition, where they have the chance to win funding and support from World Savvy to implement their plan in the next 6-8 months. This is the first time World Savvy has offered this opportunity, and we are so thrilled to be able to support students as they take the knowledge they have gained from their research and collaboration, into action in their communities.

 The teams that are invited to move on to the National competition are:

•  Super Plastic People, Blue Oak Middle School, California (Documentary, Junior Division)
• The Chairmen, Breck School, Minnesota (Documentary, Junior Division)
• Dear Dictator, Breck School, Minnesota (Documentary, Junior Division)
• Girls Education for Change, Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, California (Documentary, Junior Division)
• CHECKS, Breck School, Minnesota (Website, Junior Division)
• Omo River Dam, Twin Cities German Immersion School, Minnesota (Website, Junior Division)
• Bottle Busters, Breck School, Minneapolis (Website, Junior Division)
• Santa Cause, Wilcox High School, (Website, Senior Division)
• Fast Food Fixers, Breck School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• JELJAM, Central Middle School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• Yellow Submarines, Twin Cities Academy (Performance, Junior Division)
• Comparative Food Waste, Twin Cities German Immersion School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• Garden Girls, Breck Middle School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• Better Biodiesel, Central Middle School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• Koala Bears, Blake Middle School, Minnesota (Performance, Junior Division)
• The Meat-laurettes, St. Anthony Village High School, Minnesota (Performance, Senior Division)
• 2-1B The Surgical Droids, AFSA High School, Minnesota (Performance, Senior Division)
• The 1%. Crosswinds Arts and Science School, Minnesota (Performance, Senior Division)
• GIRLS (Growing Intercultural Real Life Solutions), St. Paul Academy, Minnesota (Performance, Senior Division)
• THRIVE, Community of Peace Academy, Minnesota (Performance, Senior Division)
• Waste Warriors, Twin Oaks Middle School, Minnesota (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• ARC, Breck Middle School, Minnesota (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• Got to Go Green, Highland Park Middle School, Minnesota (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• TCGIS Climate, Twin Cities German Immersion School, Minnesota (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• Butterfly T-Shirts, Blue Oak School, California (Performance, Junior Division)
• Vicious and Delicious, Mill Valley Middle School (Performance, Junior Division)
• H2Eau, Blue Oak School, California (Performance, Junior Division)
• Bamboo 360, Blue Oak School, California (Performance, Junior Division)
• HOPE (Help Overcome Pollution Everywhere), River School, California (Performance, Junior Division)
• Lexie, We Have Blue Tape if You’re Interested, New Technology High School, California (Performance, Senior Division)
• I Am Powerful, Wilcox High School, California (Performance, Senior Division)
• JR CLASS, Wilcox High School, California (Performance, Senior Division)
• UnderMiners, George Washington High School, California (Performance, Senior Division)
• Denke schnell, spreche schneller, New Technology High School, California (Performance, Senior Division)
• Pollution Police, River School, California (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• River Cuties, River School, California (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• CO2 Warriors, River School, California (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• The Solar Powered Coal Mines, River School, California, (Exhibit, Junior Division)
• The Vita Goats, Alsion Montessori High School, California (Exhibit, Senior Division)

Revised Knowledge to Action Plans are due to World Savvy no later than 11:59pm PDT on April 30^th. Winners will be announced on May 15^th.