What does the capstone project involve? Participants in the School of Climate change opt in to be placed in a group of 5 - 6 people and collaboratively pick an environmental problem and map the problems and solutions. The main objective is to take what they have learned from the School, build upon that knowledge and direct it towards a specific issue you find especially interesting.
How does the mentorship work? The groups with the best one-pagers will then be assigned a mentor to help them further develop their project into a presentation or poster. The mentor will walk through different perspectives and strategies for the groups projects. Then, the top 10 groups are selected to present their project in week 9 of the School (16th March). These presentations are then judged by a guest panel.
We were delighted for our panel to have been:
Richard Nourse
Tina Christmann
Angelo Raffaele Ippolito
Maya Adams
Presentation winners
1st: Group 169 - Andy Kemp and Georgia Scott with Charging Ahead: Why Electric Vehicles may not be the answer 2nd: Group 141 - Deborah Cotton, Fabian Puehringer, Margherita Birri, Maria Gkili, Marius Stephen Torres and Musa Tanko with Deforestation: A Dead End for Brazil and the World? 3rd: Group 124 - Anna Palmer, Daryll Griffith, Dianne Dormer and Diana Leon with Climate Conflict: The Experience of the Wayúu Community Thank you to each of the groups who gave a presentation, and congratulations to our winners! Watch this space for their presentation uploads!
1st place: Group 187 - Izzy Hill, Disha Bhavnani, Liz Dunbar, and Aditi Sharma with Indigenous peoples' lived experiences of climate change and issues of adaptation: A case study of Canada's Indigenous population 2nd place: Group 82 - Giannina Culqui Munoz, Vasiliy Demchenko, Richard Freund and Abigail Skinner with More than an Aesthetic City: the importance of Urban Greenscapes 3rd place: Group 50 - Giuliana Forestieri, Shazib Siddique, and Trine Carlsen with The Fashion Industry in Bangladesh
Thank you to everyone who submitted a poster and congratulations to the winners! Watch this space for more poster uploads!