P.S. 8 Film Club’s video, “Saving Water 101” was chosen as one of 6 National finalists for the National Geographics Find Your Footprint competition. The goal is to demonstrate how big our human footprint on the earth is. “We all change the Earth with the stuff that we buy, use, and throw away. This is called our human footprint. How your footprint changes the Earth is up to you.” Through this contest, one lucky classroom will win five Promethean interactive whiteboards for their school, which could help cut down on the amount of paper used in school and National Geographic subscriptions and products worth $36,000.
Help our local Brooklyn School win the Grand Prize by voting here (takes 2 seconds). PS8’s entry is currently 2nd of 6 finalists nationally. VOTE NOW! (Voting ends on March 15, 2011). Congrats PS8!
[UPDATE: You may or may not be aware that PS8 is appealing for community help and are affected by the “more extreme budget cuts that will threaten our extraordinarily talented teaching staff and the educational experience they have created in our wonderful school”, as posted by Brooklyn Heights Blog yesterday. To help PS8, please consider a donation by going to nycharities.org/donate/c_donate.asp?CharityCode=2052]
Public School 8
The Robert Fulton School
37 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
