I am the
proudest mother in the world! No really! Today, right now, I am! Ok maybe not,
maybe there are three other mothers out there just as proud as I am! My
daughter and her three friends from Bay Collage got together and decided that they wanted to
enter the Eta Awards. This is an annual competition sponsored by Eskom which
rewards projects in the field of energy efficiency. There are quite a few
categories – Industrial, Commercial, Young designers etc. And my daughter was
part of the Greenwood Independent school group which entered previously and received a special mention.
http://www.eta-awards.co.za/?q=con,70,2012+Winners
So, with the inexhaustible
help of Susan Donald, regional coordinator for Wessa/Eskom Energy and
sustainability program, my daughter and her friends, calling themselves ‘Girls
Looking Forward’ set out to do a research project on ways to reduce electricity
consumption in cooking. They prepared a dish using three different methods –
microwave, stove-top and slow cooker. The aim was to determine affordable
cooking costs for local communities and to figure out which cooking method was
the healthiest.
They found that
the slow cooker used the least electricity (saving a whopping 71% compared to
the stove and 81% compared to the microwave!) and it yielded the food with the
highest Nutritional value. But not everyone can afford a slow cooker, so they made
hot boxes, did the presentation to a soup kitchen and donated the hot box!
http://www.thehotboxco.co.za/
They submitted their
findings and made it through to round two, which meant that they had to fly to
Johannesburg to do the presentation in person and got to stay overnight in a
hotel, they had a blast! The final event took place on Thursday night and their
category was far down the list for the evening. They were so sleepy by the time
their names were called out! They won! They won money for their school too. I am
so proud! Well done Kharma, Courtney, Chanelle and Ava, you rock. And Susan, you relentless hard worker! Thank you for all the commitment you put in to help them! If ‘Girls
Looking Forward’ (GLF) were a political party they would have my vote! Proudest
mother in the world!
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