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Latino Energy LiteracyEducation Program
Tatiana Giraldo, Patricia TownsendAnd Yolimar Rivera
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Why We Initialed This Program
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Latino Outreach Focus in AHB
Youth
Communities
Farm Workers
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Latino Youth Curriculum
What is Energy?Forms of energy (Kinetic and Potential) What is power?Sources of energyEnergy FlowAlternative Energy Sources
(Poplar tree)
Solar Car toy
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Latino Youth CurriculumAccomplishments
A total of 26 energy classes
9 volunteers (Gave 35 Volunteer hours)
700 students were reached through the energy classes
The energy classes contributed to a 15% increase in energy literacy
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Latino Community Outreach
Latino community members in the Promotores de Energía
(Energy Ambassadors) training
Community Ambassador Programs are effective tools to educate non-traditional audiences.
The Ambassadors are trusted members that are capable of educating members of their own communities if given the right resources.
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Latino Community OutreachTopics Covered
What is energy?
Non- renewable and renewable energy
Alternative-Biomass ( Poplar tree)
Human energy uses
Sources of energy
Tips on how we can save energy in homes and transportation
How to become a Promotor (Ambassador) And how we can speak in public
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Latino Community OutreachPoplar Plantation Tour
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Latino Community OutreachCommunity Presentations
schools
community/family centers
churches
houses
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Latino Community OutreachCommunity Festivals and Events
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Latino Community OutreachAccomplishments
The results were VERY positive.
Promotores reached 350 Latinos in 3 months
Latinos had a 23% increase in knowledge of those polled
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Recommendations for Latino outreach Programs on Energy Issues
Recommendations: Make a summer camp for the children and teach the process from
planting the tree to being taken to the process of making Biofuel”
Promote more popular tours to the Latino community and continue to educate children in schools
Participate in community events to continue providing education on new issues of energy and biofuels
Create events in the community, offering activities for children that are related to energy and biofuels
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Latino Farm Workers and Extension What we can teach each other
Focus group:
Learn what they know about poplar tree
What kind of training or education they need
How we can share the information into the Latino community
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Why Should You Try to Reach Latinos?
Because they are eager to learn!
Because the information is not getting to them (or don’t know how to find it)
Because they care about the environment (they care what they will leave to their children and future generations)
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Why Should You Try to Reach Latinos?
Because we should all reach diverse communities
Because Latinos will not be a “minority” in the future according to demographic projections, and their actions and opinions matter
