KIUC's Energy Wise Guys - Kauai Island Utility Cooperative

Energy Does Work
Building off the success of last summer’s pilot
program, KIUC will host exiting fifth­graders
during a two­week program designed to give the
next generation of energy consumers the tools
and inspiration needed to use energy
responsibility.
Through hands­on activities, experiments,
guest speakers and tours of facilities, young
people will be educated on the importance of
energy efficiency and conservation.
The curriculum—which was developed by local
teacher Traci Sullivan, and taught not only by
educators but KIUC staff—covers the following
concepts:
• What Is Energy?
• Forms and Transformations of Energy
• The Energy Problem
• Energy Choices
• Energy Efficiency
• Renewable Forms of Energy
Trey Delos Reyes and Saedy Tumaneng play the Guess Who electricity game.
The 11 students from eight schools who
participated last year played energy games, built
hydrogen cars, constructed Lego windmills and
visited the power plant in Port Allen.
They worked together to problem solve
and came to conclusions about energy,
including how we use it and what our
energy future might look like.
They presented what they learned
and wrote reports featured in Currents
magazine. They also blogged about the
program, and continue to blog.
“Students named their program
Zetetic Analyzers of Power Sources
(ZAPS) and the name stuck,” said Maile
Moriguchi, Community Relations
Coordinator. “We’re now calling the
program KIUC ZAPS.”
Interested in participating in
this summer’s program?
Contact KIUC’s Maile Moriguchi
at 246.4348 or
mmoriguchi@kiuc.coop.
2009 KIUC ZAPS Students
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