Announcing 3-Year Smart Village/Smart City/Smart Planet Theme in 2016

WAC is pleased to announce its themes for the next three years.  Plan now to integrate student curriculum and WAC events through 2018!

Billions of people struggle to meet basic needs.  Billions more live beyond Earth’s carrying capacity.  The next three years of WAC will address this chasm that separates at-risk and in-excess populations.  These communities can learn from and instruct each other so that we together live better and sustain our planet for future generations.

A proactive approach to development for tomorrow links these two realities.  WAC means to cultivate among middle and high school students from North American and many collaborating countries the potential for our youth to incubate, demonstrate, and educate lasting solutions that are equitable, ecological, economically sound, and smart!  

The WAC theme for 2016 will be Smart Villages.  Students will examine how remote, often off-grid, communities are integrating the basic necessities of life – water, agriculture, energy, sanitation, health, and education – to enhance the lives of some two billion inhabitants of the Earth.  In 2017, the theme will be Smart Cities.  Students will investigate the inventive, efficient, and connected grids by which modern cities are integrating energy, transportation, communication, education, and other services.  And then in 2018 – the most challenging theme of all – students will collaborate internationally to discern how best to link the lessons learned of Smart Villages and Smart Cities to craft a Smart Planet!  

WAC will facilitate visits to the Posner Center for International Development, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, and leading corporations and educators who are immersed in this sustaining work.  These are tomorrow’s jobs.  Our WAC students are tomorrow’s leaders.  Join us in this collaboration!  Register today.  And invite other schools and international partners to register, too!