LIFE COACHING
Leadership/Career/Family/Teambuilding/Character
/Sustainability/Communication
The Fayette Academy Ecology Club is a close knit group of high schoolers who recognize the energy challenge the world is facing. In a society where the environment is often forgotten, we strive to educate families, school, and community what it means to be an environmental steward. EThenergy is everywhere! It is all around us. During the last twelve months we made APPs, established a new recycling program, worked with our School Board to save trees, participated in five community festivals, and for the first time in history, a Tennessee school sent a student project into space! We continued to maintain our outdoor classroom and habitats for bats that reduce pesticide run off in our water ways. We created an outdoor educational display, wrote a children’s book, mentored the young, and purchased 75 new recycle bins that increased collection by 10% to 1.8 tons. We have presented our programs at state conferences and were highlighted in the March issue of the Tennessee Conservation magazine. We use creative, fun, hands-on activities to promote energy education and conservation and have learned valuable leadership and team-building skills along the way.
We have reached millions with our indirect PR campaign and thousands directly. We mentored the young, and established an annual community-wide event by mayor proclamation. Our school has conducted 33 energy lessons in grades 5-12. All three sponsors attended TDEC Teacher Energy Camp and are set to return to energy camp this summer. We have received numerous state and national recognitions for our efforts. One of our sponsor’s was named the 2015 National Science Teachers’ Association Aerospace Educator of the Year and had a state proclamation read on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives recognizing her accomplishments with the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. We made a difference. Energy in Earth’s systems is Everywhere!
Leadership Training
Seminars & Workshops
Goals
We Love Our Home
We attend an annual retreat at Land Between the Lakes where Richard and Patrick take good care of us and provide valuable training that helps our team bond together. We are excited about returing to Brandon Springs Environmental Learning Center this fall.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Excerpt from Pope Francis' ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’
" This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and masters, entitled to plunder her at will. The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in the water, in the air and in all forms of life. This is why the earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor; she “groans in travail” (Rom 8:22). We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters."