West Hartford Student Recognized as Winner in the 20th Annual eesmarts™ Student Contest

Connecticut teachers and students submitted projects to the statewide contest promoting sustainability, energy efficiency, and clean and renewable energy

West Hartford student Elizabeth Johnson was recently honored as a winner in the 20^th Annual eesmarts ™ Student Contest.   

Presented by Energize Connecticut℠ in partnership with Eversource and Avangrid subsidiaries, United Illuminating, Southern Connecticut Gas and Connecticut Natural Gas, the eesmarts Student Contest invited Connecticut students in grades K-12 to showcase their energy smarts. Participants chose from a variety of project formats based on their grade level, including poems, essays, posters, billboard advertisements, comic strips, short videos, persuasive images and more. 

Additionally, to celebrate the 20-year milestone, a teacher prompt was introduced for the first time, inviting educators to gather their students and friends and create a song or video about saving energy in their own classrooms.

Elizabeth, a 4^th grader at Bugbee Elementary School, won 1^st place for her energy-saving billboard advertisement design.

Elizabeth’s mixed-media design featured a home with aluminum foil on its roof to depict solar panels. With the tagline “Save the Polar Install Solar,” she sought to encourage her community to install solar panels to help save the polar ice caps and maintain current sea levels.

More than 500 students throughout Connecticut submitted projects for consideration. Thirty-five entries from 26 schools in 25 Connecticut communities were selected as this year’s finalists.

Finalists attended an awards ceremony at the Connecticut Science Center and received their prizes and certificates.

For more information on the student contest and the eesmarts program, please visit www.EnergizeCT.com/eesmarts.

About Energize Connecticut

Energize Connecticut helps you save money and use clean energy. It is an initiative of the Energy Efficiency Fund, the Connecticut Green Bank, the State, Eversource, UI, SCG and CNG with funding from a charge on customer energy bills. Information on energy-saving programs can be found at EnergizeCT.com or by calling 1.877.WISE.USE.