Youth Sustainability Boot Camp @ Science Center (May)

Mr Tan Yi Han, from GUILD (Ground-Up Innovation Labs for Development), invited Earth Society to attend their Youth Sustainability event at Science Center in May. This is the 2^nd time GUILD invited us to their event.

GUILD had partnered with Science Centre to run a design thinking Boot camp on the theme of Sustainability for Upper Primary and Secondary school students.

Mr Tan invited Earth Society to share with students about sustainable food choices. GUILD also invited other Eco-organizations such as Nature Society and Foodscape Collective to share their knowledge with the students.

On 30 May, Earth Society team reached Science Center at 12.45 pm.

The primary and secondary students occupied 3 classrooms. There were 4 learning stations in each classroom. Students (in groups of 5) would rotate among the 4 learning stations to learn about different aspects of Sustainability The students had 15 mins to learn from each of the learning stations.

Earth Society team set up a learning station in a corner of a classroom from 1 pm to 2.30 pm. At our station, we used a laptop to present to the students on the amount of Green house gas emitted / the amount of water required to produce different types of food. We showed that producing meat was not sustainable and recommended to reduce meat consumption by half and support Meatless days to conserve the food and water resources on the planet.

Students paid full attention to the lesson and eagerly jotted down notes in their worksheet when listening to the presentation.  

We are glad that organizations such as GUILD are engaging primary and secondary school students on Sustainability issues. We hope the Eco-message will spread far and wide among the children/ youths in Singapore.